“Get Drunk” Charles Baudelaire
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 the star, bird, or clock, ask everything that flies, everything that moans, every thing 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.”
Nakakamiss magbasa ng mga ganito. Sa mga panahong lunod ka sa mga papel na kailangan isulat at kailangan pag-isipan, hindi talaga maiiwasan na sana ganito na lang kadali makahanap ng inspirasyon.
Oh, literature. Ikaw lang talaga ang bumubuhay sa akin, muli’t muli.
