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Be Drunk by Charles Baudelaire - Poems | Academy of American Poets

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You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it--it's the only

Be Drunk Add to anthology × Charles Baudelaire 1821 - 1867 You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk. And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that

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