Wine is bottled poetry.

"I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author.

"Wine is bottled poetry

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

...poesy is the wine of demons...

What a lovely drink this is, it makes one want to be a poet

Poetry and pistols, wine and women.

If wine is to withdraw its most poetic countenance, the sun of the white dinner-cloth, a deity to be invoked by two or three, all fervent, hushing their talk, degusting tenderly, and storing reminiscences—for a bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect—if wine is to desert us, go thy ways, old Jack!

Poetry is life distilled.

the poet has no fear of recurrence and is easily intoxicated on Classical wine.

There are no poems on wine equal to my own, and to my amatory compositions all others must yield.

Sparkling and bright in liquid light
Does the wine our goblets gleam in;
With hue as red as the rosy bed
Which a bee would choose to dream in.
Then fill to-night, with hearts as light
To loves as gay and fleeting
As bubbles that swim on the beaker’s brim
And break on the lips while meeting.

Poetry is life distilled. –

Little droplets of poetic essence.

Un soir, l'âme du vin chantait dans les bouteilles:
"Homme, vers toi je pousse, ô cher déshérité,
Sous ma prison de verre et mes cires vermeilles."