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# [John Keats on Achievement](https://www.kouroshdini.com/the-dini-group-ltd-blog/john-keats-on-achievement)

 Written by [Kourosh](https://www.kouroshdini.com/the-dini-group-ltd-blog/author/kourosh) | Mar 30, 2018 12:20:56 PM

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"... several things dovetailed in my mind, & at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in Literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously—I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason."

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