QuoteQuest“At once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: John Keats
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
To George and Thomas Keats (22 December 1817)
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Keats, John. (n.d.). Wikiquote: John Keats. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Keats
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