I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.
Stanislaw LemI never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.
Stanislaw LemWe have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.
Stanislaw LemBurn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.
Stanislaw LemPsychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that pious rider, and the rider fares no better in the situation, since his endeavor is not only to tame the pig, but also to render it invisible.
Stanislaw Lem