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1 " Security, alas, can giveA threatening impression;Too much defense-initiativeCan prompt aggression. "
― Richard Wilbur , New and Collected Poems
2 " But I am weary ofThe winter way of loving things for reasons.— Richard Wilbur, from “Winter Spring,” New and Collected Poems (HBJ, 1988) "
3 " Apology"A word sticks in the wind's throat;A wind-launch drifts in the swells of rye;Sometimes, in broad silence,The hanging apples distill their darkness.You, in a green dress, calling, and with brown hair,Who come by the field-path now, whose name I saySoftly, forgive me love if I also call youWind's word, apple-heart, haven of grasses. "