<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358678" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>And I Lounged and Lay on Their Beds</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I went to that house of pleasure<br>I didn't stay in the front rooms where they celebrate,<br>with some decorum, the accepted modes of love.<br>I went into the secret rooms<br>and lounged and lay on their beds.<br>I went into the secret rooms<br>considered shameful even to name.<br>But not shameful to me -because if they were,<br>what kind of poet, what kind of artist would I be?<br>I'd rather be an ascetic. That would be more in keeping,<br>much more in keeping with my poetry,<br>than for me to find pleasure in the commonplace rooms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Constantine+P.+Cavafy">Constantine P. Cavafy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358678" data-title="And I Lounged and Lay on Their Beds de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="When I went to that house of pleasure I didn't stay in the front rooms where they celebrate, with some decorum, the accepted modes of love. I went into the secret rooms and lounged and lay on their beds. I went into the secret rooms considered sha..."></div> </div> </div>

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