"The Jeweler's Shop seems to me a significant link between the future Pope John Paul II's writings on ethics (Love and Responsibility among them) on the one hand, and his poetry on the other. It combines the elements of a treatise with rich poetic imagery and inner dramatic development. It is the work of a man in whom unbending principles are connected with boundless forbearance and understanding for people. Here, too, out of the chaos created by our human loves, hates and weaknesses, he gently points the way in the right direction."
-Boleslaw Taborski
from the Introduction