Quote of the day
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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







