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Keats called the creative process "negative capability... when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason".
There is little of that quality Keats admired, "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact".
This allows them to breezily sweep aside sceptical doubts without having to go to the bother of checking if they are well-grounded.
Negative capability, a writer's ability, "which Shakespeare possessed so enormously," to accept "uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason," according to English poet John Keats, who first used the term in an 1817 letter.
It brings to mind Keats' coinage, "Negative Capability", which the poet famously defined as "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason".
We strive for the condition of consciousness that the Romantic poet John Keats called "negative capability," the psychological state of residing in "benign uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason".
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