Hypocrite reader — my fellow — my brother! - Charles Baudelaire

Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.

(L'Invitation au Voyage)

With wine, poetry, or virtue
as you choose.
But get drunk.

Poe’s drunkenness was a mnemonic device, a deliberate method of work, drastic and fatal, no doubt, but suited to his passionate nature. Poe taught himself to drink, just as a careful man of letters makes a deliberate practice of filling his notebooks with notes.