Novelist Quotes and aphorisms about language E. F. Benson Gail Godwin Irvine Welsh Hallie Ephron Hari Kunzru Kate Christensen Naomi Shihab Nye Naomi Shihab Nye ,, As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is ever... Naomi Shihab Nye ,, My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of c... Padgett Powell