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“Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the category of poetry, the number of meaningful elements in it acquires the capacity to grow and the system of their combinations also becomes more complex.”

Quote by Yuri Lotman

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Yuri Lotman was a Soviet and Russian cultural theorist and semiotician, born on February 28, 1922, and died on October 28, 1993. He made significant contributions to the fields of cultural semiotics, narratology, and information theory. more

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