But the heart refuses to be imprisoned; in its first and narrowest pulses it already tends outward with a vast force and to immense and innumerable expansions.
然而,心不肯被囚禁;即使在最初、最微小的搏动中,它也已带着巨大的力量向外伸展,趋向无边无数的开阔。
— Ralph Waldo Emerson · Circles · Essays: First Series (1841) —