Desiderata
1920s prose poem by Max Ehrman / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the poem. For the parody, see Deteriorata. For other uses, see Desiderata (disambiguation).
"Desiderata" (Latin: "things desired") is a 1927 prose poem by the American writer Max Ehrmann. The text was widely distributed in poster form in the 1960s and 1970s.