Sunday 31 March 2013

Be Drunken

 
"Be always drunken.
Nothing else matters:
that is the only question.

If you would not feel
the horrible burden of Time
weighing on your shoulders
and crushing you to the earth,
be drunken continually.

Drunken with what?
With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will.

But be drunken."

Charles Baudelaire - Paris Spleen 



Yes, be drunk(en). Find the passion to inebriate you, the passion of your choice. And drain it. Make sure you have a good supply at all times. Be drunken, no matter the drug: Art, poetry, work, knowledge, travel, people. Otherwise you will feel the horrible burden of Time. Which may (will) crush you. 

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