Be Drunk

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If
you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders
and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will.
But be drunken.

And if sometimes, on the stairs of a palace, or on the green side of a
ditch, or in the dreary solitude of your own room, you should awaken and
the drunkenness be half or wholly slipped away from you, ask of the wind,
or of the wave, or of the star, or of the bird, or of the clock, of
whatever flies, or sighs, or rocks, or sings, or speaks, ask what hour
it is; and the wind, wave, star, bird, clock, will answer you: "It is the
hour to be drunken! Be drunken, if you would not be martyred slaves of
Time; be drunken continually! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as
you will."