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Ode on a Grecian Urn

John Keats

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1819
Pages
Pages 2

A poet circles an ancient vase whose carved lovers are frozen forever almost kissing, and asks what its stillness knows, hearing back only that beauty is truth, truth beauty.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Ode on a Grecian Urn, John Keats

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