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


John Frederick Nims

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John Frederick Nims

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:
  1. Western wind (1974)
  2. The iron pastoral (1947)
  3. Sappho to Valery (1980)
  4. The six-cornered snowflake and other poems (1990)
  5. The powers of heaven and earth

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