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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