Monday, August 6, 2007

Much Madness Is Divinest Sense

Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part One: Life

XI

MUCH madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
’T is the majority
In this, as all, prevails. 5
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur,—you ’re straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.

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