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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 42556 |
| QUOTATION: | For should your hands drop white and empty All the toys of the world would break. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Frederick Nims (b. 1913), U.S. poet. My clumsiest dear, whose hands shipwreck vases (l. 23–24). . . How Does a Poem Mean? John Ciardi and Miller Williams, eds. (2d ed., 1975) Houghton Mifflin Company. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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