Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American poet, lecturer and essayist, born in 1803 and died in 1882. He had a large part in the American literary movement called Transcendentalism, an ideology of things existing outside of nature, such as supernatural occurrences. He is famous as a major figure in American Literature for his transcendentalism.
I chose this quote because I can relate to it in my own life, and it is poetic and true. I love reading and writing, and I think that Ralph Waldo Emerson explains what it is like to be both a reader and a writer. I like the way he phrased the quote, he simply explains that position in literature with a few words. What I mean by that is reading and writing are activities and require creativity.
What I think he means by the quote is that you are creative when you are writing. When you write, you are being imaginative, and letting your mind think freely. This is the same as when you are reading. When you read, the words form images in your mind following the story. So in both cases you yourself are being creative. Sometimes it isn’t always apparent that you are creative in either case. You have to be creative and have an open mind if you are a reader, but you’re not always creative when you’re writing, for example writing about facts and true information. Writing about something serious, depletes how creatively you can think.
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