Famous quotes containing the words straw and/or imitation:
“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.”
—Charles Simic (b. 1938)
“Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)