Charles Baudelaire, poetry

Excerpt of Charles Baudelaire's poem, "Be Drunken"

'It is the hour to be drunken
Be drunken if you would not be the
martyred slaves of Time.
Be drunken Continually, with wine, with
poetry or with virtue, as you please.'

- Charles Baudelaire (French Poet), "Be Drunken"

Complete poem, after the Jump:

Umberto Eco

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." - Umberto Eco