In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.
Robert BringhurstEvery Native North American text I've ever grappled with has taught me something important about how to live on the continent where I was born.
Robert BringhurstPoetry, 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