Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by John Frederick Nims

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet John Frederick Nims.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
John Frederick Nims

John Frederick Nims was an American poet and academic.

For should your hands drop white and empty
All the toys of the world would break. — © John Frederick Nims
For should your hands drop white and empty All the toys of the world would break.
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such stories, which explain how the world began or where the sun goes when it sets, we call myths. Mythology is a natural product of the symbolizing mind; poets, when not making up myths of their own, are still commanding ancient ones.
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