Then in the 1960s and ’70s, “Desiderata” popped up on posters hung in college dorm rooms and home bathrooms around the world (although it erroneously was described as a work by an unknown author and ...

Someone e-mailed me a copy of "Desiderata (Things to Yearn for)." At the end of the composition were the words, "Written by a monk several hundred years ago." Some copies conclude with the statement, ...

The universe – the one surrounding Max Ehrmann’s poem “Desiderata” – is now unfolding as it should. With Thursday afternoon’s dedication of the statue and plaza honoring the late poet, the center of ...

In 1927 Max Ehrmann wrote Desiderata, a prose poem that began with the words “Go placidly.” It was extraordinarily popular in the 1970s but seems today to have returned to the obscurity from which it ...