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Jared Langford's avatar

John Keats is pretty Rilke-like if you ask me.

His secret to creativity?

Negative Capability

“that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”

The world is an uncertain place, the best artist allow themselves to see it that way, instead of chokeholding it into an imagined “reason”

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J.E. Petersen's avatar

It’s the things we hear most often that we need to pay the closest attention to. Which is super convenient because we’re not biologically hardwired to pursue novelty oh wait

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