A century ago, the words of an American classic in progress stayed in Max Ehrmann’s shirt pocket as he strolled through ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...