Negative Capability

(Fanny Brawne)
I still don't know how to work out a poem.

(John Keats)
A poem needs understanding through the senses.
The point of diving in a lake
is not immediately to swim to the shore
but to be in the Lake,
to luxuriate in the sensation of water.
You do not work the lake out.
It is an experience beyond thought.
Poetry soothes and emboldens
the soul to accept mystery.

(Fanny Brawne)
I love mystery.

(John Keats)
I found your fairy princess
on the wall in my room.

(Fanny Brawne)
And you could make her out?

(John Keats)
She wears a butterfly frock.