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Our shop has been operating in Thessaloniki under the name Christos and Nestor C. Kavvadas since 1979. We collect and sell mainly books and archive material from the 20th century. In addition, our stock includes printed and hand-written documents of all descriptions relating to the everyday life and activities of Greeks in the same century. We would like to thank you for visiting our site and are at your service either to provide you with items from our catalogue or any related information.

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The Fault of it

Ezra Pound

Some may have blamed us that we cease to speak
Of things we spoke of in our verses early,
Saying: a lovely voice is such as such;
Saying: that lady's eyes were sad last week,
Wherein the world's whole joy is born and dies;
Saying: she hath this way or that, this much
Of grace, this way or that, this much
Of grace, this little misericorde;
Ask us no further word;
If we were proud, then proud to be so wise
Ask us no more of all the things ye heard;
We may not speak of them, they touch us nearly.

From "Uncollected Miscellaneous Poems", 1902