"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

31 October 2024

Hilton, John Keats, 1822


It struck me what Quality went to form a Person of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when someone is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

John Keats, from a letter to his brothers, 21 December 1817

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