Allen Ginsberg

“Negative capability,” he [Keats] wrote, “is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching out after fact and reason.” This means the ability to hold contrary or even polar opposite ideas or conceptions in the mind without freaking out—to experience contradiction or conflict or chaos in the mind without any irritable grasping after facts.” — Allen Ginsberg ‘Meditation and Poetics’

I think I will post it on Facebook.

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