Three cups open the grand door to bliss.
Take a jugful, the universe is yours.
Such is the rapture of the wine.

Li Bai, Wine: A Vindication

Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That’s all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and I sigh.

William Butler Yeats, A Drinking Song

Wine stirs the spring,
joy grows like a plant,
walls, large rock fall,
abysses close up, song is born.
Oh thou, jug of wine, in the desert
with the woman I love …

Pablo Neruda, Ode to Wine

All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radiant moment together.

Now I cannot live without you … Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Sarah Bernhardt, letters to Victorien Sardu

Let us celebrate the occasion
with wine and sweet words.

Plautus, Asinaria (835)

I have drunken deep of joy,
I will taste no other wine tonight.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci, Act 1 Scene iii

Fill the goblet again! For I never before
Felt the glow which gladdens my heart to its core.
Let us drink! Who would not?

Lord Byron, Fill the Goblet Again