Security, alas, can give A threatening impression; Too much… - Richard Wilbur

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Security, alas, can give
A threatening impression;
Too much defense-initiative
Can prompt aggression.

Richard Wilbur

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Richard Purdy Wilbur (1 March 1921 - 14 October 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989.

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Security, alas, can give A threatening impression; Too much defense-initiative Can prompt aggression. - Richard Wilbur

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