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1830–1886

XI.

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.

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