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Desiderata

By: Max Ehrmann
Narrated by: Paul Viandox
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Max Ehrmann’s Desiderata is a gentle manifesto for the human spirit, written with the clarity of wisdom that comes not from abstraction but from lived experience. First published in 1927, the poem speaks in a calm, almost parental voice, guiding the listener toward a life of quiet dignity amid the disorder of the modern world. Its opening injunction—“Go placidly amid the noise and haste”—establishes both its tone and its philosophy: serenity is not the absence of chaos, but a way of moving through it.

©1927 Max Ehrmann (P)2025 Glish Can Can Audiobooks
Personal Development Personal Success Poetry United States World Literature
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