Key points Though negative capability may seem counterintuitive, sometimes the wisest thing is to allow experience to run its course. Benefits of negative capability may include building reflective ...

In a letter to his brothers in 1817, John Keats shared his admiration for Shakespeare’s “negative capability,” his capacity for “being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable ...

Martin Puryear, “Big Phrygian” (2010–14), painted red cedar 58 x 40 x 76 inches (all images © Martin Puryear, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery) Recently, and ...

The album’s inside artwork features pictures of, among others, William Burroughs and a young Faithfull with a young Bob Dylan before his manual typewriter – totems of negative capability in ...