Quotation by

John Keats

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Imagination

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John Keats suggests that when our imagination recognizes something as beautiful, it reveals a deeper reality or truth about it. This means that beauty, as perceived by the mind, is not just a surface impression but an expression of something genuinely true.

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