Poems (Dickinson)/Much madness is divinest sense

by Emily Dickinson

For other versions of this work, see 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.