[lbo-talk] Re: a poem]

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri May 30 16:56:50 PDT 2003


It took a long time for the woman's poems as she wrote them to get into print, but they have been available for almost 50 years now, and ought to he so quoted.

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 --

No. 435 in _The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson_, ed. Thomas J. Johnson



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