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Need help with a person's name who quotes, or it's the title of the quote.

Here I go again, I tried to Google it, but I couldn't talk to it, so maybe someone will get what I'm after. I'll know it when I read it.

 

I think it's a quote, that is either called Desidera, or It's by someone with a name like that. It's stuck in a cobweb in my brain, and I can't get it out. If you might have any Idea, please mention it. It's like a song stuck in my head. I wish I could remember what it is even about but, of course not. Man, cobwebs need dusting out! LOL. Thanks!

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Re: Need help with a person's name who quotes, or it's the title of the quote.

Desiderata (Latin: "desired things") is a 1927 prose poem by American writer Max Ehrmann.      Is this what you are looking for?

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Brilliant! I think that's it, I'll check further and be sure. Thank you so much! @silkyk

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Fate whispers to her, "You cannot withstand the storm." She whispers back, "I am the storm."

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That's IT!!! thank you ladies. I came to the right place.

Be gone  you webs!!! In the brain. (mine). LOL

 

@Preds, @silkyk

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I have it hanging in my basement room.   Have had it since the late seventies?/ eighties.  It's on antiqued paper.  I think I'll bring it upstairs and frame it.  It wouldn't hurt to read it each week. 

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@ROMARY wrote:

I have it hanging in my basement room.   Have had it since the late seventies?/ eighties.  It's on antiqued paper.  I think I'll bring it upstairs and frame it.  It wouldn't hurt to read it each week. 


@ROMARY, after the above ladies helped me, I found it on line, in calligraphy. I copied it, laminated it, and need to dig out a frame. I think it's that good. Thank goodness they knew what I was talking about, since I'm getting tarp as a shack lately. Woman Wink

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That is something that it was penned in the 1920s! I remember first seeing it in my college bookstore in 1968. The message is timeless, appropriate for each new generation.

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@qualitygal ... Just get your dust bunnies to move your cobwebs.  That's what I have to do... often. Smiley Wink

Fate whispers to her, "You cannot withstand the storm." She whispers back, "I am the storm."

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How funny this should come up.  I'm in a book club and this word came up in whatever we were reading.  The retired English Lit teacher didn't know it, I did, and only because it was the word of the day on Dictionary dot com the week before.  I highly recommend that service.  They email you one word a day, a small step I can handle.  I'm not up to learning a bunch of new words at once, like in a quiz.  Desiderata is Latin plural, the singular is desideratum.  Confusing, eh?