Robert Bringhurst

A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren't perhaps emotion recollected in…

— Robert Bringhurst

Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch…

— Robert Bringhurst

The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto…

— Robert Bringhurst

In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between…

— Robert Bringhurst

When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the…

— Robert Bringhurst

A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is…

— Robert Bringhurst

If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as…

— Robert Bringhurst

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

— Robert Bringhurst

Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or…

— Robert Bringhurst

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote,…

— Robert Bringhurst

We're into the era of desktop bureaucracy, where people sit at computers building websites and analyzing data rather than listening or reading.

— Robert Bringhurst

My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as…

— Robert Bringhurst

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

— Robert Bringhurst

It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set…

— Robert Bringhurst

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

— Robert Bringhurst

The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in…

— Robert Bringhurst