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Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.

Marianne Moore

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Marianne Moore
Age: 84 †
Born: 1887
Born: November 15
Died: 1972
Died: February 5
Essayist
Poet
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Kirkwood
Missouri
Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore
Fighting
Oppressor
Rather
Maine
Fall
Oppressors
Resister
Found
Pleased
Primed
Lets
Intruder
Shallow
Quill
Fight
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Animal
Intruders

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