We are all so clumsy, my dear, and words are all we have, poor signals like bonfires and flags trying to express what shipwreck is.

Rose Wilder Lane (1886-1968) American journalist, travel writer, novelist, political theorist

Letter to Dorothy Thompson (Jan 1927)
    (Source)

In William Holtz, ed., Dorothy Thompson and Rose Wilder Lane: Forty Years of Friendship (1991)