Every man worth the name <br />has a yellow snake in his soul, <br />seated as on a throne, saying <br />if he cries: ‘I want to!’: ‘No!’ <br />Lock eyes with the fixed gaze <br />of Nixies or Satyresses, says <br />the Tooth: ‘Think of your duty!’ <br />Make children, or plant trees, <br />polish verses, or marble frieze, <br />the Tooth says: ‘Tonight, where will you be?’ <br />Whatever he likes to consider <br />there’s never a moment passing <br />a man can’t hear the warning <br />of that insufferable Viper.<br /><br />Charles Baudelaire<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-warner/
