"It actually happened to me yesterday, I was at a job fair, that was the first thing out of the recruiter's mouth: 'oh,you have such an impressive resume,'" "And I don't want to dummy myself down so I put exactly what I have done and what I have achieved and what my titles were.

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This is impressive: he dropped out of both Dartmouth and Harvard, and he did so to take laboring jobs, each time enacting a conflict between intellectual life and manual labor that would be a persistent and central theme of his poetry.

令人印象深刻的是，他从,达特茅斯学院和哈佛大学都辍学了,来劳作，每一次都在,脑力劳动和体力劳动间发生矛盾,这也是他的诗歌的核心主题。

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