Van Allsburg, Third Story Window, 1984
Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in
uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact
& reason—Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated
verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of
remaining content with half knowledge. This pursued through Volumes would
perhaps take us no further than this, that with a great poet the sense of
Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
John Keats
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