“Call me a sinner,
Mock me maliciously:
I was your insomnia,
I was your grief.”

Kamala Suraiyya Das

Letter to Oskar Pollak (8 November 1903); cited from Briefe, 1902-1924 (1958) edited by [Max Brod]], p. 27<!-- New York: Schocken --> ; translation from Franz Kafka, Representative Man (1991) by Frederick R. Karl, p. 98 <!-- New York: Ticknor & Fields -->
Context: We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours? And if I were to cast myself down before you and weep and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance to Hell.

You Can Call Me Al
Song lyrics, Graceland (1986)

Source: Lighthousekeeping

Source: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada; Cien sonetos de amor

Source: To the Nines

Suscipe prayer of Saint Ignatius

Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer