

“The designer always has to leave room for the gods.”
― Everywhere Being Is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking
― Everywhere Being Is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking

“Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.”
― The Tree of Meaning: Thirteen Talks
― The Tree of Meaning: Thirteen Talks

“By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.”
― The Elements of Typographic Style
― The Elements of Typographic Style

“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.”
― The Elements of Typographic Style
― The Elements of Typographic Style

“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?”
― The Tree of Meaning: Thirteen Talks
― The Tree of Meaning: Thirteen Talks
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