The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that creating a sentence allows for limitless expression and exploration of ideas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote emphasizes the power of language and the boundless possibilities that arise when one constructs a sentence. It implies that each sentence can open up new realms of thought and creativity, launching the speaker or writer into an infinite landscape of ideas, interpretations, and connections. The act of forming a sentence is not just a matter of communication; it is a profound engagement with the act of creation itself, embodying the idea that language can shape our understanding of the world.
In practice
In a public speech about the importance of literature, one could use this quote to illustrate how storytelling transcends boundaries.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.
Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.
Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most concerned with the hells on earth right now seem the least concerned about hell after death.
America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.
The season when to come, and when to go, to sing, or cease to sing, we never know.
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