Much Madness is Divinest Sense

December 5, 2012 — divinest sense, Emily Dickenson, much madness, poems on the underground, tube

Some years ago they put poems in the little advertising slots on London’s tube trains. Poem’s on the Underground, provided a nice way to reflect on things other than cheap calls to Australia and pay day loans, on the way to work. For those that don’t take the tube, here’s a poem we liked….

`Much Madness is divinest Sense`

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 straightaway dangerous -

And handled with a Chain -

 Emily Dickinson (1830 – 86)

Have a curious day.