"I want to find redemption in today, in right now, in the reality that is happening, and not in promise...I want a present moment that is not something with a promise but that is that is being. That is the heart of what I want and fear."-Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

But this dark is deep:
now I warm you with my blood, listen
to this flesh.
It is far truer than poems.
-Marina Tsvetaeva, in "Poem of the End"