Much Madness is divinest Sense (620)

by Emily Dickinson (1890)

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

(as mentioned in Girl, Interrupted | A Meeting of the Mutual Admiration Society | Episode 1)