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1 Truth in Insanity By Paige Formanek

2 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 http://shakespeare-art-museum.com Can you see the truth in their insanity? -Emily DIckinson

3 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 http://www.pathguy.com/macbeth.htm

4 Insanity Passes by Unnoticed It shall be so. Madness in great ones Must not unwatched go. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog /images/eyes-watching2.jpg

5 To Hide Thy Soul Hinders Thy Mind We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body. http://pal2pal.com/ BLOGEE/images/ uploads/oppression _sand.jpg

6 Must There Always Be a Method? Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. http://westendwhingers.wordpress.com/2008/0 8/28/review-hamlet-with-david-tennant-rsc- stratford-upon-avon/

7 Everyone, Everywhere, is crazy. No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. http://toblogornottoblogbhs.blogspot.com/2009/05/ha mlets-diognosis.html

8 For Each Genius, Is a Form of Insanity There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/csl0024l.jpg

9 No One is Alone We All Find Allies in Similarities He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. http://chicagocritic.com/assets/images/autogen/a_ KingLear07.jpg

10 Works cited "Part One: Life." Bartleby.com. 21 May 2009. Bradly, A.C. "Shakespearean Tragedy." clicknotes.com. 22 May 2009. "William Shakespear Quotes." World of Quotes. 25 May 2009. "Insanity Quotes." World of Quotes. 28 May 2009.


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