"I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it’s just obtuse to them. It’s hard to relate to." ― Jewel Kilcher Topic(s): Poetry More From Jewel Kilcher "I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people’s truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave." "I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort." "The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision." More In Poetry "I wake up every morning feeling lucky – which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all go away."― Natasha Richardson "Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know."― Joseph Roux "I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time."― Robert Hass