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 BringhurstAnxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make it the basis of everything.
Robert BringhurstTypographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.
Robert BringhurstTypography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the dance, on a tiny stage, of the living, speaking hand - and its roots reach into living soil, though its branches may be hung each year with new machines. So long as the root lives, typography remains a source of true delight, true knowledge, true surprise.
Robert Bringhurst