Desiderata Clouds is a photograph by Deena Stoddard which was uploaded on May 14th, 2014.
Desiderata Clouds
Desiderata (Latin: desired things) is a 1927 prose poem by American writer Max Ehrmann. Largely unknown in the author's lifetime, the text became... more
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Desiderata Clouds
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Deena Stoddard
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"Desiderata" (Latin: "desired things") is a 1927 prose poem by American writer Max Ehrmann. Largely unknown in the author's lifetime, the text became widely known after its use in a devotional and after spoken-word recordings in 1971 and 1972.
When US Democratic presidential hopeful Adlai Stevenson died in 1965, a guest in his home found the Desiderata near his bedside and discovered that Stevenson had planned to use it in his Christmas cards. This contributed further to the poem becoming widely known.
On August 26, 2010, a bronze statue of Ehrmann sitting on a park bench was unveiled in Terre Haute, Indiana, his hometown, with the sculpture done by Bill Wolfe. On a nearby walkway, some lines of the poem are also available to be read by passers-by.
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