found the Desideratanear his bedside and discovered that Stevenson had planned to use it

in

. This version also appeared on the 1995 re-release of Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's
Music from Outer Space. His rendition is not the only one to change the second-to-last sentence
from "Be Cheerful" to "Be Careful".

In concluding her January 8, 1970, interview with David Frost, actress Joan
Crawford recited Desiderata.[5]

In late 1971 and early 1972, Les Crane's spoken-word recording of Desiderata (the lead
track on his 1971 Warner Bros. album Desiderata)[6] peaked at #8 on the Billboard chart, #4 on
the Canadian RPM Magazine chart, and #6 on the UK Melody Maker's chart. It made #4 on the
In the Nurseryadapted the poem to music on its 1992 album Duality.[7]

A Spanish language version by Mexican actor Arturo Benavides topped the Mexican charts
for six weeks in 1972.

In 1972, National Lampoon did a parody on this prose entitled "Deteriorata", which featured
the line: "You are a fluke of the universe".

In response to his government's losing its majority in the Canadian federal election,
1972 Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau quoted Desiderata by reassuring the nation that "the
universe is unfolding as it should."[8] He also quoted the poem's final stanza at the end of his
concession speech after losing the 1979 election to Joe Clark.

In a 1980 episode of the British TV series The Professionals entitled "Discovered in a

Graveyard", part of the poem is recited by George Cowley (Gordon Jackson).[9]

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. [10]

Actor Morgan Freeman interviewed on Oprah Winfrey's Master Class television special
(2012), expressed how deeply the poem Desiderata shaped his life.[11]

Reggae band SOJA has a Grammy nominated album titled Amid the Noise and Haste in
reference to this poem.

Canadian indie rock band The New Pornographers' song You Tell Me Where references
Desiderata by name.

Lazyboy the band has a song 'Desiderata' which quotes this poem on their album LazyBoy
TV[12]

Director Nicolas Pesce's 2016 horror The Eyes of My Mother features a scene in which the
main character quotes the first two sentences of Desiderata in Portuguese.
 In Christian Cameron 's book The Red Knight , a queen is given the namesake Desiderata.

In 2016, in celebration of 25th anniversary of the Philippine drama anthology series Maalaala
Mo Kaya, a spoken-word music recording of the poem (recorded in both English and Filipino)
was performed by TBUP Choir and OPM singers Lea Salonga, Martin Nievera, Gary
Valenciano, Lani Misalucha, Ogie Alcasid, Zsa Zsa Padilla and Sharon Cuneta, with a spoken
narration of the poem by the program's host Charo Santos-Concio, and included on the
compilation album Life Songs with Charo Santos.[13]