6 Dec 2025
Happy birthday Antonio Di Spigna. The designer, typographer, artist & educator, famous for, amongst many things, his masterful hand-lettering & for his work with Herb Lubalin, was born today in 1943. #typography #handlettering #Spencerianscript
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１３９
時間是變化的財富。時鐘模仿它，卻只有變化而無財富。
Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy #copperplatepractice
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１３１
我聽見有些東西在我心的憂悶後面蕭蕭作響，－－我不能看見它們。
I hear some rustle of things behind my sadness of heart,
—I cannot see them.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy #copperplatepractice
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１３０
如果你把所有的錯誤都關在門外時，真理也要被關在門外面了。
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy #copperplatepractice
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95
１２７
蜜蜂從花中啜蜜，離開時營營地道謝。
浮華的蝴蝶卻相信花是應該向它道謝的。
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave.
The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy
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１１７
綠草是無愧於它所生長的偉大世界的。
The grass-blade is worthy of the great world where it grows.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy #copperplatepractice
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１１６
今天大地在太陽光裡向我營營哼鳴，象一個織著布的婦人，用一種已經被忘卻的語言，哼著一些古代的歌曲。
The earth hums to me today in the sun, like a woman at her spinning, some ballad of the ancient time in a forgotten tongue.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript
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１１３
山峰如群兒之喧嚷，舉起他們的雙臂，想去捉天上的星星。
The hills are like shouts of children who raise their arms, trying to catch stars.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy #copperplatepractice
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１１２
太陽只穿一件樸素的光衣，白雲卻披了燦爛的裙裾。
The sun has his simple rode of light. The clouds are decked with
gorgeousness.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy #copperplatepractice
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１１１
終止於衰竭是“死亡”，但“圓滿”卻終止於無窮。
That which ends in exhaustion is death, but the perfect ending is
in the endless.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy #copperplatepractice
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51
１１０
人走進喧嘩的群眾裡去，為的是要淹沒他自己的沉默的呼號。
Man goes into the noisy crowed to drown his own clamour of silence.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy #copperplatepractice
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55
１０８
當富貴利達的人誇說他得到神的特別恩惠時，上帝卻羞了。
God is ashamed when the prosperous boasts of His special favour.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy #copperplatepractice
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１０７
回聲嘲笑她的原聲，以證明她是原聲。
The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy #copperplatepractice
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80
１０６
無名的日子的感觸，攀緣在我的心上，正象那綠色的苔蘚，攀
緣在老樹的周身。
The touch of the nameless days clings to my heart like mosses round
the old tree.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy #copperplatepractice
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１０５
不要從你自己的袋裡掏出勳績借給你的朋友，這是污辱他的。
Do not insult your friend by lending him merits from your own pocket.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy #copperplatepractice
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49
１０４
遠遠去了的夏之音樂，翱翔於秋間，尋求它的舊壘。
The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking
its former nest.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy #copperplatepractice
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53
１０３
根是地下的枝。
枝是空中的根。
Roots are the branches down in the earth.
Branches are roots in the air.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy #copperplatepractice
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１０２
只管走過去，不必逗留著采了花朵來保存，因為一路上花朵自會繼續開放的。
Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on,
for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy #copperplatepractice
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49
１０１
塵土受到損辱，卻以她的花朵來報答。
The dust receives insult and in return offers her flowers.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy #copperplatepractice
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33
１００
白雲謙遜地站在天之一隅。
晨光給它戴上霞彩。
The cloud stood humbly in a corner of the sky.
The morning crowned it with splendour.
#taiwan #台灣 #spencerianscript #copperplatecalligraphy #copperplatepractice
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