“One should always be drunk. That’s the great thing; the only question. Not to feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and bowing you to the earth, you should be drunk without respite.
Drunk with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please. But get drunk.
And if sometimes you should happen to awake, on the stairs of a palace, on the green grass of a ditch, in the dreary solitude of your own room, and find that your drunkenness is ebbing or has vanished, ask the wind and the wave, ask star, bird, or clock, ask everything that flies, everything that moans, everything that flows, everything that sings, everything that speaks, ask them the time; and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird and the clock will all reply: ‘It is Time to get drunk! If you are not to be the martyred slaves of Time, be perpetually drunk! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please.’”
Baudelaire is one of the best. Thanks for posting this. I was not expecting to read Charles over this morning’s coffee but you just gave me that gift. What a way for me to start my day.
Now, THAT’S some writing! Another stellar post, thanks!
–JR
lol Love this post!!!
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I´ve posted those words on my blog a few weeks ago. That is some inspiring writing” Hope you´re doing great on the other side of the world! ;) much love, darling. peace
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I love this. It gives me hope and inspires me to live life, despite the hard times that may arise. Thanks for that!
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It has been months since I check in on your blog, but I am glad I did today. This post is beautiful. Thank you! ;)