<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358818" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Photograph</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In this obscene photograph sold in the street<br>secretly (have to watch out for the police),<br>in this whorish photograph,<br>how could there be such a dream-like face?<br>How did you get in here?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who knows what a degrading, vulgar life you lead;<br>how horrible the surroundings must have been<br>when you posed to have this picture taken;<br>what a cheap soul you must have.<br>But in spite of all this, and even more, you remain for me<br>the dream-like face, the figure<br>shaped for and dedicated to the Hellenic kind of pleasure-<br>that's how you remain for me<br>and how my poetry speaks about you.</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=358818" data-title="The Photograph de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="In this obscene photograph sold in the street secretly (have to watch out for the police), in this whorish photograph, how could there be such a dream-like face? How did you get in here? Who knows what a degrading, vulgar life you lead; how horri..."></div> </div> </div>

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