Quotes by Robert Bringhurst

Robert Bringhurst

A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren’t perhaps emotion recollected in tranquillity but perception recollected in interiority.

Emotion

Perception

World

A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well .

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Sheep

Anxiety 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.

Anxiety

Myth

Office

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

I Hate You

Mean

Typography

By all means break the rules.

Break

Mean

Typography

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.

Hands

Mean

Ocean

Essay on Adam” There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over the edge, and one look silenced him. Five: nothing worth mentioning happened to Adam. The first, that he fell, is too simple. The fourth, fear, we have tried and found useless. The fifth, nothing happened, is dull. The choice is between: he jumped or was pushed. And the difference between these is only an issue of whether the demons work from the inside out or from the outside in: the one theological question.

Differences

Simple

Two

Every 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.

Important

Native

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.

Income

People

Poet

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.

Long

Thinking

Together

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Durability

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Endless Opportunities

Enough

Fashion

Given

Giving

Goal

Hands

Hero

Honor

Horse

House

Hunting

I Hate You

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Income

Independent

Intellectual

Interesting

Jobs

Language

Listening

Literature

Littles

Long

Made

Mean

Men

Mind

Myth

Mythology

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Native American

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Quotes by Robert Bringhurst

Robert Bringhurst

A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren’t perhaps emotion recollected in tranquillity but perception recollected in interiority.

A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well .

Anxiety 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.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

By all means break the rules.

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.

Every 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.

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