A thing of beauty is a joy forever

1. The first line of the poem “Endymion,” by John Keats.

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It’s good that it has endured; after all, as Keats said, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”.

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“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”

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Rumpole gets his client off by quoting another Keats, "a thing of beauty is a joy forever".

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Perhaps Keats remembered his earlier utterance, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever,” and cared for his own Hyperion too much to banish him for the sake of Apollo.

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The chances are that when one turns to the poem again he will not begin where he left off, but at the beginning, and read as if he had never read it before; or rather, with more enjoyment because he has read it so many times:— "A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing."

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