饮酒
（二十首其十三）
有客常同止，取舍邈异境。
一士常独醉，一夫终年醒。
醒醉还相笑，发言各不领。
规规一何[1]愚？ 兀傲[2]差[3]若颖。
寄言酣中客，日没烛当秉。
“有客常同止，取舍邈异境”指两人常常在一起，志趣心境是不同的。所谓田园生活，饥寒是常事，这首诗以醉者同醒者打比方，表现两种迥然不同的人生态度。“醒醉还相笑，发言各不领”指醒了醉了，都只能与另一个自己相顾大笑。醒着的时候，世事纷然眼前，诗人对这样的世道是厌恶的；醉了的时候，猖狂自在，不拘礼教反倒可能让自己怡然自得些。在比较与评价中，诗人愿醉而不愿醒，以寄托对现实不满的激愤之情。
注释：
[1]一何：多么。
[2]兀傲：倔强，狂傲。
[3]差：比较。
Wine-drinking Song
(XIII)
Two men who live under one and same roof
Go different ways apart and aloof.
A man of letters drunken would appear;
A man of arms stays sober all the year.
They talk and laugh each at the other’s way
Of living and seem to laugh it away.
How foolish is a man laden with care!
How proud is the man who drinks in the air!
I would like to tell the drinker to light
A candle so as to drink in the night.
