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Robert Bringhurst Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

By all means break the rules Picture Quote #1

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well Picture Quote #1

Typography exists to honor content Picture Quote #1

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly Picture Quote #1

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time Picture Quote #1

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Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form Picture Quote #1

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing Picture Quote #1

If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates possess, then no matter what you know, no matter how noble your intentions, you have taken one step toward the destruction of the world Picture Quote #1

When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you’ve given enough, your place is near the centre Picture Quote #1

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Poetry, I’m often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn. Typography with anything to say therefore aspires to a kind of statuesque transparency. It’s other traditional goal is durability: not immunity to change, but a clear superiority to fashion. Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That’s why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that’s probably true Picture Quote #1

I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I’m more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph Picture Quote #1

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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 obtuseness Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 (Robert Bringhurst Quotes) By all means break the rules (Robert Bringhurst Quotes) By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well (Robert Bringhurst Quotes) Typography exists to honor content (Robert Bringhurst Quotes) Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly (Robert Bringhurst Quotes) Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time (Robert Bringhurst Quotes) Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form (Robert Bringhurst Quotes) Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing (Robert Bringhurst Quotes) If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of history as something only you and your affiliates possess, then no matter what you know, no matter how noble your intentions, you have taken one step toward the destruction of the world (Robert Bringhurst Quotes) When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how? (Robert Bringhurst Quotes) 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 Quotes) When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you’ve given enough, your place is near the centre (Robert Bringhurst Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Robert Bringhurst Quotes) In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn. Typography with anything to say therefore aspires to a kind of statuesque transparency. It’s other traditional goal is durability: not immunity to change, but a clear superiority to fashion. Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time (Robert Bringhurst Quotes) 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 Quotes) How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That’s why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that’s probably true (Robert Bringhurst Quotes) I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I’m more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph (Robert Bringhurst Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Robert Bringhurst Quotes)