“I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting,
I read books, I sang songs of history,
And today I've come home to Cold Mountain
To pillow my head on the stream and wash my ears.”
Cold Mountain: 100 Poems by the T'ang Poet Han-shan
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W. C. Handy (1873–1958) American blues composer and musician
Profiles In Black http://www.theblackmarket.com/ProfilesInBlack/WCHandy.htm
“I tried to kill it in my bed,
I gagged it with a pillow,
But awoke the nuns inside my head.”
Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician
Song lyrics, Prayers on Fire (1981), Just You and Me
“When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet
Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1870), letter #342a of The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958), edited by Thomas H. Johnson, associate editor Theodora Ward, page 474
Source: Selected Letters
“I put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Variant: Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read,
I need protection from the things in my head…”
Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman
