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Chalked graffiti on a wall. High Street, Exeter, Devon, UK. Photo © Ian Woodward

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She Never Told Her Love

Chalked graffiti on a wall, High Street, Exeter

 

I've found this is a reference from Twelfth Night, where Viola first speaks of her love to Orsino. It's also a piece of music by Haydn, and a portrait by Victorian photographer Henry Peach Robinson (as well as a curious .com of a silhouetted woman with moving hair, by a Greek artist named Angelo Plessas). Shakespeare as graffiti inspiration? I thought Liverpool was City of Culture 2008.

 

ref DSCF1387 date 13th June 2008 camera Fujifilm FinePix F810 exposure f/5, 1/60 sec, ISO 100

 

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Viola
My father had a daughter lov'd a man,
As it might be perhaps, were I a woman,
I should your lordship.

 

Orsino
And what's her history?

 

Viola
A blank, my lord: she never told her love,
But let concealment like a worm i' th' bud
Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sat like Patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?