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Popularity Isn't Just Something That Happens. You Have To Give Something In Exchange For It, And That's The Dangerous Part Of The Process.

By All Means Break The Rules, And Break Them Beautifully, Deliberately And Well.

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.

Typography 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.

We're Into The Era Of Desktop Bureaucracy, Where People Sit At Computers Building Websites And Analyzing Data Rather Than Listening Or Reading.