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

    How soon I may ride the whole world about;
    And at the third question thou must not shrink,
    But tell me here truly what I do think.”
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    It’s a pity you didn’t know when you started your game of murder, that I was playing, too.
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    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)