Much madness is divinest Sense –
To a discerning Eye –
Much Sense – the starkest Madness –
‘Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail –
Assent, and you are sane –
Demur – you’re straightway dangerous –
And handled with a Chain –
Source:Poem no. 435: Much madness is divinest Sense; in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (ed. Little, Brown & Co., 1960), Page 209
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