Stefania Lucchetti > Quotes

“Poetry, too, is a language—the privileged language of emotion and synthetic thought. Its timeless nature transcends personal and cultural boundaries: it is universal and intimate at once, capable of speaking to each of us in different ways, yet always authentically. While narrative—however suspended it may be—unfolds in time and carries with it the emotional necessity of a conclusion, poetry lives in timelessness and thus in the absence of conclusion, much like thoughts and emotions: absolute in their moment and ambiguous in their unfolding and transformation over time.”
― Stefania Lucchetti, Poetry is Cyberpunk

“Human emotions and stories are complex and do not always conclude with a happy ending or an uplifting moral of the story. Life unfolds with its share of pain, transformation, creativity, and new beginnings - often amidst a maze of personal struggles confronted in private. The alchemy of personal growth is not always accompanied by magic or sudden enlightenment; rather, it evolves through layers of effort and accumulated experience over time. Only in hindsight the path may reveal its light, and it does not necessarily feel easier.”
― Stefania Lucchetti, Coffee Stains On My Books: Poetry collection

“Cyberspace has become the new psychological landscape of humanity, a space we inhabit with our thoughts, our mind, our imagination, and one that, on average, absorbs more of our physical time than any other activity.
Within it, desire and knowledge intertwine, intimacy and distance coexist, freedom and dependence overlap.
Participation in cyberspace, however, inevitably entails interaction with others, and this interaction is often experienced in a looser, less regulated way than in-person encounters.
It is here that the need arises to rethink citizenship, not as belonging to a state, but as conscious participation in a shared digital reality.”
― Stefania Lucchetti, Digital Citizenship: Language, Ethics, and Identity in Cyberspace