Victor Shklovsky

Selected Quotations:
Potebnya and his numerous disciples consider poetry a special kind of thinking - thinking by means of images; they feel that the purpose of imagery is to help channel various objects and activities into groups and to clarify the unknown by means of the known. (717)
poets are much more concerned with arranging images than with creating them. Images are given to poets; the ability to remember them is far more important than the ability to create them. (718)
By "works of art," in the narrow sense, we mean works created by special techniques designed to make the…