
John Keats
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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The Importance of Negative Capacity
Negative capability is a bit tricky. It made me think of a very popular book which I guess came out in the 80s about relationships called Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. In that it sort of says if a woman gets, men and women are different is the point, they might as well be from different planets. We shouldn't try to solve the problem as if we were writing a philosophical treatise when we create art. When we write poetry, we should present what feels true and then have the gods to leave it, leave it there, leave it on result.
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