“I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.”
Source: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
“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.”
Life, p. 9
Collected Poems (1993)
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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