John Frederick Nims Quotes & Sayings

Only
With words and people and love you move at ease. — John Frederick Nims

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

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. — John Frederick Nims