Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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