Quote of the day
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
John Frederick Nims
Born: November 20, 1913
Died: January 13, 1999 (aged 85)
Bio: John Frederick Nims was an American poet and academic.
Known for:
- Western wind (1974)
- The iron pastoral (1947)
- Sappho to Valery (1980)
- The six-cornered snowflake and other poems (1990)
- The powers of heaven and earth