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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 42558 |
| QUOTATION: | The refugee uncertain at the door You make at home; deftly you steady The drunk clambering on his undulant floor. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | John Frederick Nims (b. 1913), U.S. poet. My clumsiest dear, whose hands shipwreck vases (l. 6–8). . . How Does a Poem Mean? John Ciardi and Miller Williams, eds. (2d ed., 1975) Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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