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Poem by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


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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 -



Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


Emily Elizabeth Dickinson's other poems:
  1. Our Journey Had Advanced
  2. We Learned the Whole of Love
  3. Doom is the House without the Door
  4. I Send Two Sunsets
  5. Should You but Fail at — Sea


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