Authenticated quotes from Much Madness Is Divinest Sense

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 Dickinson

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Original Citation

Dickinson, Emily. "Much Madness Is Divinest Sense." Poems by Emily Dickinson. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890, I. 1.

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Dickinson, Emily. "Much Madness Is Divinest Sense." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

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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 —