two best lines of a poem that might inspire you most in the time of hardship?

Answer 1

Walking between dark and dark, a shining space
With the grave's narrowness, but not it's peace.

Answer 2

I measure every Grief I meet-
With narrow, probing Eyes,
I wonder if It weighs like Mine-
Or has an Easier size.

Poem # 561 by Emily Dickinson

At a first glance, it doesn't seem so helpful, but to think- and to consider that quatrain (yes, I broke your rules... hehe, sorry)- reveals that everyone has pain, everyone has grief, and through experience we're all so close to being the same (in pain and troubles, that is). This could help you to look upon a friend for help because of their experiences, or to look upon yourself as lucky that you didn't experience pain quite so bad as someone else you may know. No matter how bad we feel, there's always someone hurting worse, unless I'm wrong, that is.

That was my shot, I hope it fits as well as i meant it to.

Answer 3

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.

I always quote these lines as my favorite scripture, then surprise people by saying this scripture happens to be from Hamlet by William Shakespeare (V, ii, 10-11).

When I'm in a time of hardship I try hard to believe these lines, but usually I have to cite two more, which really are my favorite scriptures (and my most often repeated prayers):

I believe; help thou mine unbelief

and

O Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner.

Answer 4

"To be beloved is all I need,
And whom I love, I love indeed"

from "The Pains of Sleep" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

I love this poem, and altho it deals with his personal problems, I find comfort in it - especially these last two lines, which are probably the most well-known of his poetry. They remind me that (1) love will enable me to weather any storm, that (2) i'll get as much as i give - so the more i love, the more love i get in return, and (3) true love is of such power that when i do love, it is unconditional; without hesitation or reservation. therefore, if i profess a love i do not feel, it tarnishes that awesome power -- and that is something i cannot do.

Answer 5

This is why if you want to kiss you should kiss.
If you want to cry you should cry, and
if you want to live you should live.

excerpt of a poem by Ryan Ross

Full poem:

The moon bred new Atlantic life tonight.
The salt burned you right out of my eyes,
and secrets we're not proud of were taken with the tide.
We were all newborns with blurred vision and no sense of direction.

Today I saw cancer, cigarettes and shortness of breath.
This is why I walk to the ocean.
Swim with sharks and jellyfish.
I may never get this chance again.
This is why if you want to kiss you should kiss.
If you want to cry you should cry, and
if you want to live you should live.
You don't have to love me.
You already did.
At least enough to keep me smiling from South Carolina to Virginia.
It's for lovers (orjustfriends)
This is why I do it.

Answer 6

I can't remember exactly but Kahlil Gibran wrote something to the effect in the Prophet that:

on must travel through the path of night, to reach the day.

Answer 7

Fear not, sad heart, and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;

from The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Answer 8

Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there is hatred let me bring your love.
Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord
And where there's doubt, true faith in you.

Oh, Master grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love with all my soul.

Sinead O'Connor sings a stunningly beautiful version of this song. Very inspiring.

Answer 9

i really don't know that the hardship is, so it is hard to really say what poem would help me.

if you have a problem,

you can fight, by using all your might
you are strong, so the fight will not be wrong.

good luck, i just put it together for you.

Answer 10

"life's not a paragraph

and death i think is no parenthesis"

-E.E. Cummings

or this one:

"but love and I had the wit to win
we drew a circle that took him in."

...but I can't remember the author of that one. The whole poem goes
"He drew a circle to shut me out
heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win
we drew a circle that took him in."

Answer 11

"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage unto the dying of the light!"

Dylan Thomas

This if from one of my most favorite poems and I use it especially for those hard times to keep me motivated.