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Truth in Insanity
By Paige Formanek
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
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Can you see the truth in their insanity?
-Emily DIckinson
the lunatic, the lover, and the poet;
and the partial truth that genius is
allied to insanity was quite familiar
to him.
But he presents here the
supplementary half-truth that
insanity is allied to genius.
Why is the truth hidden in the lost
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Insanity Passes by Unnoticed
It shall be so. Madness in great ones
Must not unwatched go.
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To Hide Thy Soul Hinders Thy Mind
We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.
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Must There Always Be a Method?
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
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Everyone, Everywhere, is crazy.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
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For Each Genius,Is a Form of Insanity
There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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No One is AloneWe All Find Allies in Similarities
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the
same disease.
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Works cited
"Part One: Life." Bartleby.com. 21 May 2009 <http://www.bartleby.com/113/1011.html>.
Bradly, A.C. "Shakespearean Tragedy." clicknotes.com. 22 May 2009 <http://www.clicknotes.com/bradley/tr289.html>.
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"Insanity Quotes." World of Quotes. 28 May 2009 <http://www.worldofquotes.com/topic/insanity/index.html>.
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