Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Russian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote,… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
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. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come to the… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design is to… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Many intellectual heroes in the European tradition seem to find the great outdoors a chilling prospect - and its literary analogue, the mythworld, equally… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
