My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as I can tell - because it's part of life itself. In the world of the hamburger stand and the supermarket, or the vegan cafรฉ and the ashram, you might try to tell yourself it's possible to be nonviolent. In a hunting and gathering society, violence is more difficult to hide.
Robert BringhurstWhen you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.
Robert BringhurstRussian literature, like colonial Canadian literature, comes with a lot of landscape backdrop.
Robert BringhurstI 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 BringhurstDrop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No oneโs hands are fast enough.
Robert BringhurstIn 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