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 Robert Louis Stevenson
When the poet Keats wrote those well-known lines, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever Its loveliness increases," the first line stood originally: "A thing of beauty is a constant joy."
From Conversation What to Say and How to Say it by Mary Greer Conklin
Its opening line has been a familiar quotation since: A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
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