Robert Bringhurst Quotes
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.
Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.
Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.
Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.
The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.
When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.
Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast enough.
We're into the era of desktop bureaucracy, where people sit at computers building websites and analyzing data rather than listening or reading.
Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.
Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make it the basis of everything.
Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop.
A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren't perhaps emotion recollected in tranquillity but perception recollected in interiority.
Every Native North American text I've ever grappled with has taught me something important about how to live on the continent where I was born.
Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control.
With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.
Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.
Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process.