does any one know of a poem?

Question

Or any other work ..like words of encouragement or inspiration for a new college student or any student in general...i'm designing a plaque for my best friend and i need something touching and inspirational

Answer 1

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let not this blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful.

Strive to be happy.

-Max Ehrmann

Answer 2

OPPORTUNITY

by: Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887)

This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:--
There spread a cloud of dust along a plain;
And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged
A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords
Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince's banner
Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes.
A craven hung along the battle's edge,
And thought, "Had I a sword of keener steel--
That blue blade that the king's son bears, -- but this
Blunt thing--!" he snapped and flung it from his hand,
And lowering crept away and left the field.
Then came the king's son, wounded, sore bestead,
And weaponless, and saw the broken sword,
Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand,
And ran and snatched it, and with battle shout
Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down,
And saved a great cause that heroic day

Answer 3

how about, Afterflakes

Afterflakes, by Robert Frost

in the thick of a teeming snowfall
i saw my shadow on snow.
i turned and looked back up at the sky,
where we still look to ask the why
of everything below.

if i shed such a darkness,
if the reason was in me,
that shadow of mine should show in form
against the shapeless shadow of storm,
how swarthy i must be.

i turned and looked back upward.
the whole sky was blue;
and the thick flakes floating at a pause
were but frost knots on an airy gauze,
with the sun shining through.

its my fave and i wrote it because it is very hard to find online!

Answer 4

i feel like i'm cheating because i used this quote on here before. . . but it's a solid quote and one of my favorites:

Rainer Maria Rilke

...I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Answer 5

Dear Muahh: For a college student, Oliver Wendell Holmes had a lovely Quote:

" A mind that is stretched to a new idea never
Returns to its original dimension."

Also, for a college student this poem is lovely: It's by T.S. Elliot.

" We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive - where we started
And know the place
As if for the first time."

I don't know if your friend is spiritually oriented, but I saw in this the humbleness of knowing that with all we shall learn we will still belong to God and arrive back with Him, where we started, and Know Him as if for the first time. Perhaps you can explain that meaning to your friend. It was shown in Erich Segal's novel, "The Class" in the setting of Harvard. It spoke of Reunion, after graduation, but I saw in it the spiritual context.

That is my offering . . .

Answer 6

Here is one... I found it at Poetry.com, it is by Jason D Waters, one of the most prolific poets of our time.

Myself

I follow myself, into deep triumph...
for I am great.
A winner.
I love myself. Even if no one else does.
Why am I the only one who loves?
It always seems that it is true, yet never understood.

Answer 7

here;How far you go in Life...depends on your being tender wiyh the young,compassionate with the Striving,and tolerant of the Weak and strong,B-coz someday in your life you will have been all of this,,Always say somethin nice to a stranger,One kind words can warm three winter months,,,'']by. e.s.n

Answer 8

Woe be to the man who has not the good fortune of misfortune, for he knows not muck from gold.

Answer 9

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great."
-Mark Twain

Answer 10

OH MISTRESS MINE OH WHERE ARE YOU ROAMING?
OH STAY AND HEAR YOUR TRUE-LOVE' COMING
THAT CAN SING BOTH HIGH AND LOW;
TRIP NO FURTHER, PRETTY SWEETING,
JOURNEYS END IN LOVERS MEETING-
EVERY WISE SON DOTH KNOW,
WHAT IS LOVE TIS NOT HEREAFTER ,PRESENT MIRTH HATH PRESENT LAUGHTER; WHATS TO COME IS STILL
UNSUURE,:IN DELAY THERE LIES NO PLENTY SO COME KISS ME SWEET AND TWENTY YOUTHS A STUFF WILL NOT ENDURE