Like strangler figs choking a banyan, not an explorer, no i… - Marianne Moore

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Like strangler figs choking
a banyan, not an explorer, no imperialist,
not one of us, in taking what we
pleased — in colonizing as the
saying is — has been a synonym for mercy.

Marianne Moore

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mercy colonialism

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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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