Ode on a Grecian Urn
noun
a poem (1819) by Keats.
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“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”(1819) A poem by John Keats. It contains the famous lines “‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ — that is all / Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.”
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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
Her favorite word was "superb," which she applied equally to Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn and her favorite brand of unscented soap.
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
Keats, with all his glory, could not have written Joseph Vance, and Mr. De Morgan, with all his skill in ceramics, could not have fashioned the Ode on a Grecian Urn.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
As Keats wrote in “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter.”
From Economist ● Jun. 23, 2016
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