Angel of Hope Statue
In "The Christmas Box," a woman mourns the loss of her child at the base of an angel monument. The book gives a description of the monument, which is of a childlike angel with upturned palms and outstretched wings. The word "hope" appears on the angel's right wing. When reports surfaced that grieving parents were seeking the statue, Evans commissioned the construction of an angel statue matching the description in "The Christmas Box." In 1994, it was placed in Salt Lake City, Utah on land donated by the city. Since then, Christmas Box Angels have been erected in at least 25 cities, and are planned for over a hundred more.
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Famous quotes containing the words angel of hope, angel of, angel, hope and/or statue:
“Angel of hope and calendars, do you know despair?
That hole I crawl into with a box of Kleenex....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“But how irrelevantly
the absurd angel of happiness walks in....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“The sun in this month
begets a headache
like an angel slapping you in the face.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“There is hope.
There is hope everywhere.
Today God give milk
and I have the pail.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)