Quotes from John Frederick Nims

Be with me, darling, early and late. Smash glasses— I will study wry music for your sake. For should your hands drop white and empty All the toys of the world would break.

It's brief and bright, dear children; bright and brief. Delight's the lightning; the long thunder's grief. — John Frederick Nims, "Days of Our Years," Selected Poems (The University of Chicago Press, 1982)

Only With words and people and love you move at ease.