Claim: The famous poem Desiderata was discovered in a church in 1692. Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender ...

After Ehrmann's death, the poem was given a new title, "Desiderata" (meaning "things most needed"), by his widow in a collection in 1948. In 1970, the rock group King Crimson used the poem to ...