The sea drinks the air and the sun the sea.
ANACREON
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He who has a mind to fight, let him fight, for now is the time.
AnacreonAnacreon Thus, while I quaff the genial wine, I live mid transports quite divine.
AnacreonAnacreon Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.
AnacreonAnacreon Let others seek renown in arms; For me wine’s wars have greater charms: Then fill the bowl, boy; fill it high: ‘Tis better drunk, than dead to lie.
AnacreonAnacreon And last of all comes death.
AnacreonAnacreon How the waves of the sea kiss the shore!
AnacreonAnacreon I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.
AnacreonAnacreon Today is ours; what do we fear? Today is ours: we have it here. Let’s treat it kindly, that it may Wish at least with us to stay.
AnacreonAnacreon For when we quaff the gen’rous bowl, Then sleep the sorrows of our soul. Let us drink the juice divine, The gift of Bacchus, god of wine. When I take wine, my cares go to rest.
AnacreonAnacreon To-day belongs to me, To-morrow who can tell.
AnacreonAnacreon War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.
AnacreonAnacreon Ah, cruel ’tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain.
AnacreonAnacreon My Passion uncontrolled shall rove, Doubly debauched with Wine and Love.
AnacreonAnacreon Cursed be he above all others Who’s enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
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ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
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Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
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I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.
Sai BabaSai Baba Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam A drink is shorter than a tale.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam I’m not a writer with a drinking problem, I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker I hate tequila but I’ll drink it straight from the bottle if it means forgetting you.
Helena DegnHelena Degn I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I’m under the table/After four I’m under my host.
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam