| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 54160 |
| QUOTATION: | And then finally there’s your grandmother Sweeping the dust of the nineteenth century Into the twentieth, and your grandfather plucking A straw out of the broom to pick his teeth. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Charles Simic (b. 1938), Yugoslav-U.S. poet. Brooms (l. 55–58). . . American Poetry Anthology, The. Daniel Halpern, ed. (1975) Avon Books. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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