Qu Qiubai

Qu Qiubai (1899-1935) was a revolutionary Chinese poet and activist. He advocated revolutionary ideals in his poetry. He became head of Chinese Communist Party during 1927-28. He was eventually captured and executed by Kuomintang forces.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Life is indistinct,

A momentary sweeping light or fleeting shadow.
The morning is cool and cold dew freezes,
The tepid sun spreads like a disease
The dew melts - the wonderful mystery of life -
But the stream of inexhaustible treasury of meanings is not seen
And also the least particle in the mighty whirl.
Will you come to grasp, through the cracks, the meaning of all that?
- Wenji

• I'm in no soft, smooth comfortable world,

I'm perched in no glory and splendour;
I'm in a smoke-filled somber factor
Casting my iron flower in the forge,
Flames around me.
- Wenji

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