"Much madness is divinest sense"

XI.

Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye ; Much sense the starkest madness. 'T is the majority In 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)
In a Library	"I asked no other thing"

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