Baudelaire on living with gusto | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:06:50 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg Baudelaire on living with gusto | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 “Get Drunk,” by Charles Baudelaire https://anitamathias.com/2010/01/09/get-drunk-charles-baudelaire/ Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:53:00 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2010/01/09/get-drunk-charles-baudelaire/ Get Drunk  Always be drunk. That’s it! The great imperative! In order not to feel Time’s horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, Get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk. And if you sometimes happen to wake up on the porches of a […]

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