I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.
Stanislaw LemOf the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world (from where?), space is by far the less mysterious. It, too, undergoes transformations. Time, on the other hand, is a hostile element, truly treacherous, I would even say against human nature.
Stanislaw LemIt has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A machine to write a book instead of a writer is not invented yet, and probably will never be.
Stanislaw LemYou believe by doubting and you doubt by believing; yet this state too is not the final one.
Stanislaw LemI do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.
Stanislaw LemEach civilization may choose one of two roads to travel, that is, either fret itself to death, or pet itself to death. And in the course of doing one or the other, it eats its way into the Universe, turning cinders and flinders of stars into toilet seats, pegs, gears, cigarette holders and pillowcases, and it does this because, unable to fathom the Universe, it seeks to change that Fathomlessness into Something Fathomable.
Stanislaw Lem