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A famous expression of this proposition is the finale of John Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all/Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know."
From Scientific American • Oct. 28, 2018
And what is John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" if not a work of criticism about the experience of art?
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2016
That isn't exactly Ode on a Grecian Urn; neither is Benedikt picking his way through seven types of ambiguity.
From Time Magazine Archive
The film bears about the same relation to ordinary travelogues that Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn bears to a cheap pottery catalogue.
From Time Magazine Archive
In such work as "Hyperion" and the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" he mediates between the ancient and the modern spirit, from which Landor's clear-cut marbles stand aloof in chill remoteness.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
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