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The Stone Carvers

Book by Jane Urquhart · 4 quotes · Art, Calling, Carving

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All Art Calling Carving Decisions First World War Letting Go Memory Sculpture The Past Tunnels

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“she remembered the pure joy of making art, how the self connected with the emerging form.”

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“When one embraces a moment of rapture from the past, either by trying to reclaim it or by refusing to let it go, how can its brightness not tarnish, turn grey with longing and sorrow, until the wild spell of the remembered interlude is lost altogether and the memory of sadness claims its rightful place in the mind? And what is it we expect from the sun-drenched past? There is no formula for re-entry, nothing we can do to enable reconstruction.”

Letting Go Memory The Past

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“Someday," Joseph said to his granddaughter, "someday something will happen and you will want to go back to the carving. You won't be able to prevent yourself; that's just the way it is. The world always somehow takes us back to the chisel. Something happens and we have to respond.”

Calling Decisions Carving

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“And all around them, stretching as far as the market town of Arras, the dank tunnels, like graves, out of which thousands of young men had rushed into the brimstone air.”

Tunnels First World War

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