Much madness is divinest sense
Emily Dickinson
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.
Of note
On April 22, 1998, former poet laureate Robert Hass read this poem aloud in the East Room of the White House, at an evening of American poetry where Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky also read Dickinson.
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TEXT PROVENANCE · First published 12 November 1890 in Poems by Emily Dickinson · Text from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete, a Project Gutenberg compilation of the 1890, 1891, and 1896 series.
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete
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