Poems & Prayers

De: Matthew McConaughey

Narrado por: Matthew McConaughey

From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief.

My prayers are my poems are my prayers.

I’ve always relied on logic to make sense of myself and the world.

A prescriptionist at heart, I’ve always looked to reason to find the rhyme, the practical to get to the mystical, the choreography to find the dance, the proof to get to the truth, and reality to get to the dream.

I’ve been finding that tougher to do lately. It’s more than hard to know what to believe in; it’s hard to believe.

But I don’t want to quit believing, and I don’t want to stop believing in . . . humanity, you, myself, our potential.

I think it’s time for us to flip the script on what’s historically been our means of making sense, and instead open our aperture to enchantment and look to faith, belief, and dreams for our reality.

Let’s sing more than we might make sense, believe in more than the world can conclude, get more impressed with the wow instead of the how, let inspiration interrupt our appointments, dream our way to reality, serve some soul food to our hungry heads, put proof on the shelf for a season, and rhyme our way to reason.

Forget logic, certainty, owning, or making a start-up company of it; let’s go beyond what we can merely imagine, and believe, in the poetry of life.

©2025 Matthew McConaughey (P)2025 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“McConaughey’s own story is arguably more interesting than any character he has embodied on the silver screen over the decades.”—USA Today

“Both calming and laugh, laugh, laugh-out-loud funny.”—The Washington Post

“McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did—and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.”—Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Love all Matthew

Totally love the poems and prayers, will be putting this into a rotation, he and I are worlds apart and just the same.

We Loved your book

My wife and I spent our morning on the deck listening to your book, it was the best time we've had in a while! We both agreed we need to listen again, so many life lessons to take to heart.

inspired and impressed

Entertaining and insightful. A privilege to listen to as it's read by the cool and laid back, the man himself.

The way they spoke the inner me! Spoke to my soul!!! Feed me a dose of acceptance and was very freeing!!

Mathew’s voice is so soothing right up there with James Earle Jones and Morgan Freeman!!!!

Matthew is pure Genius.

This work, as a reflection over the course of his life, allows the reader to connect on a realistic, simplistic, we’re-all-struggling-at-times, human level. It’s refreshing to know that we’re not that far gone.

Just gotta keep believin’…and livin’. Thanks Matthew!

I found this easy to relate too

I loved seeing the normal everyday guy that Matthew is these poems are easily relatable

10/10

No question as to why he is an amazing and beautifully fortified human. His experience and wisdom is needed

Enjoying The Depth of an Emotional Life

This author will take me to the end in comforting words and wisdom. To hear MATT laughing, singing and telling his stories in such a conversational way is like having him as a house guest. His words flow like musical songs!

Easy listening

His voice is a melody and the words flow smoothly. There is always a line or two that stands out for reflection or interpretation. Very well done.

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I really like that Matthew reads it so you can hear it how he meant it.