Thursday, March 25, 2010

Negative Capability

John Keats' theory describing the capacity for accepting uncertainty and the unresolved.

'I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke, on various subjects; several things dovetailed in my mind, & at once it struck what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason'
Sunday, 21 December 1817

Ive always thought about it but i never knew it had a name. Trust that it was Keats :) just be dobtful, accept something as mysterious and dsont bother yourself with figuring it out. Theres no need, its just an unecessary stress.

3 comments:

  1. pretty much my attitude toward school =p

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  2. haha same
    worked out well for us. thanks keats

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  3. did you see the pin striped prince post those photos from bright star?? it came up on tumblr the other day as well =] its been following me ever since you brought it up. before then i had forgotten about it...im dying to watch it its killing me

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