Emily Dickinson Quotes


Prayer is the little implement
Through which Men reach
Where Presence - is denied them.
They fling their Speech
By means of it - in God's Ear -
If then He hear -
This sums the Apparatus
Comprised in Prayer


Citations

Dickinson, Emily. The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Edited by Thomas H. Johnson, Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1955, p. 339.

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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
  • Born: December 10, 1830
  • Died: May 15, 1886
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Poet

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Little known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry.