Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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