“It's like a spell. It's so strong I can't fight it. Is love always like this?”
Source: Brilliance of the Moon
Directive (1947)
Context: I have kept hidden in the instep arch
Of an old cedar at the waterside
A broken drinking goblet like the Grail
Under a spell so the wrong ones can't find it,
So can't get saved, as Saint Mark says they mustn't.
(I stole the goblet from the children's playhouse.)
Here are your waters and your watering place.
Drink and be whole again beyond confusion.
“It's like a spell. It's so strong I can't fight it. Is love always like this?”
Source: Brilliance of the Moon
“Fill up the goblet and reach to me some!
Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.”
"Wine Song of Kaitmas", p. 161.
Poetry of the Orient, 1865 edition
“I don't have a drinking problem ‘cept when I can't get a drink.”
"Bad Liver and a Broken Heart", Small Change (1976).
“One more drink and I'd have been under the host.”
As quoted in Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf (1944)
Misattributed as quatrain beginning “I like to have a martini,” (see below).