John Frederick Nims

John Frederick Nims (November 20, 1913 Muskegon, Michigan - January 13, 1999 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American poet and academic.

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

    And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
    —Bible: New Testament St. John the Divine, in Revelation, 21:4.

    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)