A thing of beauty is a joy forever
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"A thing of beauty is a joy forever," Keats wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2010
A Thing of Beauty To the Editors: "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
From Time Magazine Archive
The first line of Keats's poem Endymion is "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
From Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson by Stevenson, Robert Louis
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever," declared the spirit of Keats.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
The trite saying is still true, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by Prentiss, George L.
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