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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.
-- John Keats


Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
-- John Keats


Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

-- John Keats


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.
-- John Keats


Beauty is truth, truth beauty.

-- John Keats


Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
-- John Keats


Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a
proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-- John Keats


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.
-- John Keats


Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb
to you till your life has illustrated it. -- John Keats


Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced.
- John Keats


If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it better not come at
all.

-- John Keats


Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
-- John Keats


Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
-- John Keats


Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a
proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
-- John Keats