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After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.

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There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.

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Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. . . . It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.

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Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.

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You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

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I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

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