Much Madness Is Divinest Sense

Emily Dickinson(1830–1886)

Poems by Emily Dickinson, 1890

Much madness is divinest senseTo a discerning eye;Much sense the starkest madness.'T is the majorityIn this, as all, prevails.Assent, and you are sane;Demur,—you're straightway dangerous,And handled with a chain.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890), via the English Wikisource transcription.

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