First line of Deserada Is; Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence.
2006-06-24 12:38:44 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
The author is Max Ehrmann, a poet and lawyer from Terre Haute, Indiana, who lived from 1872 to 1945. It has been reported that Desiderata was inspired by an urge that Ehrmann wrote about in his diary:
"I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods."
Other origons have been reported...
http://www.fleurdelis.com/desidera.htm
2006-06-24 12:48:45 · answer #1 · answered by FreddyBoy1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anonymous
2006-06-24 12:41:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't it the Desiderata?
2006-06-24 12:42:41 · answer #3 · answered by Untitled 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anon
2006-07-08 09:07:10 · answer #4 · answered by tanner_1122 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋