John Frederick Nims Quotes

• We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such stories, which explain how the world began or where the sun goes when it sets, we call myths. Mythology is a natural product of the symbolizing mind; poets, when not making up myths of their own, are still commanding ancient ones.

  John Frederick Nims

  Mind, Sun, Stories

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• Only
  With words and people and love you move at ease.

  John Frederick Nims

  Love, Moving, People

  John Frederick Nims (1944). “Selected Poems”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

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• For should your hands drop white and empty
  All the toys of the world would break.

  John Frederick Nims

  Hands, White, World

  John Frederick Nims (1944). “Selected Poems”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

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