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. — 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share
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
Essay on Adam" There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over the edge,… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share
In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share
