Try triple clicking (to select paragraph/block), wait a second, press and hold the left mouse button, wait a second, slowly move the pointer to where you want the paragraph.
The timing is a little tricky, but you can tell if your doing it “right” if you see the paragraph moving with the pointer. You’ll see the cursor (insertion point) move on the left at the beginning of any blank line. Holding down optn shows a plus symbol but doesn’t seem to do anything differently (that I can tell).
[This should move the paragraph, but won’t create any link]