To kick our week off, here’s beautiful food for thought from French poet Charles Baudelaire.
You must always be intoxicated. That sums it all up; it’s the only question. In order not to feel the horrible burden of Time which breaks your back and bends you down to earth, you must be unremittingly intoxicated.
But on what? Wine, poetry, virtue, as you please. But never be sober.
And if it should chance that sometimes, on the steps of a palace, on the green grass of a ditch, in the bleak solitude of your room, you wake up and your intoxication has already diminished or disappeared, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, ask everything that flees, everything that groans, everything that rolls, everything that sings, everything that speaks, ask them what time it is and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, will reply: It’s time to be intoxicated!
If you do not wish to be one of the tortured slaves of Time, never be sober; never ever be sober! Use wine, poetry, or virtue, as you please.
This is one of my favorite quotes ever. Live it, love it. Let’s get drunk on “wine, poetry, virtue…” as we please. Let’s get intoxicated with inspiration, with nature, with love.
Happy Monday!
Hi! I'm Toni Tiu,
and I've been blogging at
at Wifely Steps since 2003. This started as a blog to help newly weds adjust to married life. It has evolved into a home and parenting blog. I write about things close to my heart -- good eats, good reads, family, marriage, and the little things that make everyday happy.
ladycess
November 19, 2007 at 2:23 pm (16 years ago)wow, how inspiring. pero wag nang wine. some people just cant handle too much wine 😀
kayni
November 20, 2007 at 1:06 am (16 years ago)arghghg…don’t like mondays.
Ruy
November 20, 2007 at 2:09 am (16 years ago)Be extraordinarily irrational with extraordinary dreams to live an extraordinary life… I say in relation to this beautiful post: Never be rational!
Junnie
November 20, 2007 at 5:23 am (16 years ago)I think there’s a version I know of this inspiring line that you posted – that is “Let Go. Let God.” In Him, can we best intoxicated.
It was a great Monday…and I hope the rest of the week for you is as great!
Leah
November 20, 2007 at 11:41 am (16 years ago)What a beautiful piece. I would love to be intoxicated with Time! And to feel the wind…intoxicating indeed!
Happy Monday too!
bh
November 20, 2007 at 11:55 am (16 years ago)don’t tempt me.
pinayhekmi
November 20, 2007 at 1:46 pm (16 years ago)I’ll take the wine! Hehe.
sha
November 21, 2007 at 9:41 am (16 years ago)can i be so selfish and be intoxicated with love, wine good company and hearty laugh….but i will keep a glass of bordeaux for u when we get intoxicated with good talks……. sometime soon .. it will come i know