[lbo-talk] Re: a poem]

[Carrol Cox]

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