Quotation by

John Keats

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

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John Keats suggests that the experience of beauty and the understanding of truth are essentially the same and inseparable. He implies that recognizing this connection is the most important knowledge one can have in life.

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