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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
Within that year Keats turned out, among other poems, The Eve of St. Agnes, La Belle Dame sans Merci, the Ode to Autumn, the Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn.
From Time Magazine Archive
That isn't exactly Ode on a Grecian Urn; neither is Benedikt picking his way through seven types of ambiguity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Milton's "Sonnet on his Blindness," or Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," are both thoroughly original, but still we can point to other such sonnets and other such odes.
From Robert Browning by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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