Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. - John Keats

it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

Who are these coming to the sacrifice?
To what green altar, O mysterious priest,
Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies,
And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?

Blinded alike from sunshine and from rain,
As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again