“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
“Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.”
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“This morning I will not
Comb my hair.
It has lain
Pillowed on the hand of my lover.”
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662–710) Japanese poet
XX, p. 22
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955)
Jeffrey Bernard (1932–1997) British journalist
Ibid. (03.01.87)
“You must remember that an oak tree is not a crime against the acorn.”
David Zindell (1952) American writer
Source: War in Heaven (1998), p. 634
