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?
You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
I have never given adoration to any body except myself.
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