John Frederick Nims quotes
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“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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“Only With words and people and love you move at ease.”
-- John Frederick NimsSource : John Frederick Nims (1944). “Selected Poems”, p.5, University of Chicago Press
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“For should your hands drop white and empty All the toys of the world would break.”
-- John Frederick NimsSource : John Frederick Nims (1944). “Selected Poems”, p.5, University of Chicago Press
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“Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?”
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Source : "Boy of Age: Aaron Johnson". Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2010.
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“I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.”
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Source : "Golden Globe Nominee Abel Korzeniowski Talks Madonna, ‘W.E.,’ Score" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2012.
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“Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.”
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