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.
First print Life XI, 11
Johnson 435 | Franklin 620
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Comma to mark off elucidation, ’T is, the majority In this, as all, prevails.
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Poems by Emily Dickinson prepared for print by Teresa Pelka: thematic stanzas, notes on the Greek and Latin inspiration, the correlative with Webster 1828, and the Aristotelian motif, Things perpetual — these are not in time, but in eternity.
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