"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"
From "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
These oft-cited and, well, beautiful lines don't necessarily reflect Keats's philosophy. Within the poem, they're written as lines of dialogue "said" by the Grecian urn, an object that, according to some scholars, Keats is criticizing for its flat and idealistic view of society. Writes W.H. Auden, "The Urn, for example, depicts, among other beautiful sights, the citadel of a hill town; it does not depict warfare, the evil which makes the citadel necessary."
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