that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hind… - Marianne Moore

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that which is impossible to force, it is impossible to hinder.

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Marianne Moore (15 November 1887 – 5 February 1972) was a Modernist American poet and writer. For her Collected Poems (1951), she received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize.

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Alternative Names: Marianne Craig Moore

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Maine should be pleased that its animal
is not a waverer, and rather
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insister, you have found a resister.

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