Another of Taiwan's literary giants, Yeh Shih-tao, has described Lee as a spider prowling the world's two great webs--poverty and maternal love: "But he's a spider that pities mankind, one that has tremendous compassion for people.
同為台灣文學巨擘的葉石濤，形容李喬是在世界的兩大苦網──貧困與母愛──中爬行的蜘蛛：「但他是一隻懷著悲天憫人、大慈悲胸懷的蜘蛛。