John Frederick Nims

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“For should your hands drop white and empty
All the toys of the world would break.”
—John Frederick Nims (b. 1913)

“Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He’ll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Only
With words and people and love you move at ease.”
—John Frederick Nims (b. 1913)

“The refugee uncertain at the door
You make at home; deftly you steady
The drunk clambering on his undulant floor.”
—John Frederick Nims (b. 1913)