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Much madness is divinest sense

by Emily Dickinson, 1890

Much madness is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
'Tis the majority
In this, as all, prevails.
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur, — you're straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.

Published in Poems by Emily Dickinson
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