Much Madness is divinest Sense - To a discerning Eye - Much Sense - the starkest Madness - - Emily Dickinson

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye....

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

This is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me, — The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty.
Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!

So we must meet apart — You there — I — here
With just the Door ajar
That Oceans are — and Prayer — And that White Sustenance — Despair — — Emily Dickinson, from “I Cannot Live with You,” The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Little,Brown and Company, 1960)