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• Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or…
• Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.
• Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or…
• Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.
• If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as…
• When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the…
• Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.
• When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.
• Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is…
• Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of…
• Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch…
• In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order…

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