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What did you lose … is the sound of the sea. And why from a tower does an ocean seem to stumble, to fall on its knees and bleed a pure thin salt that could have stained a cheek had she been inclined, but not she, who decided, after all, to go with him. That’s what grief is, an accompaniment.
— Cole Swensen, on Cy Twombly’s visual interpretation of Marlowe’s literary interpretation of Hero and Leander (1985)
— Cole Swensen, on Cy Twombly’s visual interpretation of Marlowe’s literary interpretation of Hero and Leander (1985)
(Source: poetryfoundation.org)
