...perceived that language's quality of ambiguity was a source of strength and understanding: At once il struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. The other consideration of the nature of language is less philosophical: What is required for its intelligibility?...

...John Keats coined the phrase "negative capability" in a letter he wrote nearly two hundred years ago: "at once it struck me what quality went to form a...being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact or reason." Today's TrendSmart leaders have an intellectual toggle...

...pays tribute to what he calls Shakespeare's "Negative Capability," and goes on to explain the term: "that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties,...any irritable reaching after fact and reason." This has long been accepted as a shrewd account of the spirit in which Shakespeare wrote, and as good advice...

...Netta takes on John Keats's "Negative Capability." which, as he explained in a letter to his brother, is "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.' Had Netta reached after "fact and reason" alone, she would have sent Jack packing. Instead, she now...

...what Bion (1962), following Keats, terms negative capability. For Keats negative capability exists "when a man is capable of being in uncertainties,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason" (in Bion 1962). Shunryu Suzuki, a modern Zen teacher, calls this beginner's mind. "If your mind is...

...Spirituality ultimately produces a state of mind that the poet John Keats called 'negative capability': when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries,...doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.2 This is surely a condition to aspire to in our torn and broken world, especially since the...

...letter that he wrote to his brothers, John Keats spoke of 'negative capability', describing it as when 'man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason'. The nimbleness of Dickinson's faith is evidence of an extraordinary negative capability, an enormous...

...Literature and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason [...].1 12 Dieses romantische, am i -s/i ent istische Eingeständnis der rationalen Unfaßbarkeit der...

...the poet John Keats, written to George and Thomas Keats in 1817: "Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." 94 thou shalt not muzzle the ox: 1 Corinthians 9:9. 95 "Render unto Caesar": Matthew 22:21. 96 queen...

...prerequisite for any great poet or artist. Keats defined this ideal state of mind as when a person "is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries,...without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." Now, there's a sentiment I can wholeheartedly endorse. Because it is precisely that "irritable reaching...