Charlie-chan Quote by Earl Derr Biggers

“Sometimes his words were like single lines of poetry.”

— Keira Cass

“He had the look of a sensitive bard, but there was no poetry to his words; he spoke awkwardly, uncertainly, as if the sound…

— N.M. Lombardi

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

— Helen Dunmore

“he was walking poetry, a walking poem”

— Bemy Wells

“The man was poetry in motion.”

— Danielle Bourdon

“He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where,…

— George MacDonald

“I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings.”

— Arti Honrao

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

— Len Jenkin

“The words of the letter had long since been whisked away by time, but the poems he kept prisoner in his heart.”

— Felix Alexander

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own…

— John Updike

“I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.”

— Cassandra Clare

“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the…

— Don DeLillo