O. W. Holmes (The Last Leaf).
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know!
John Keats (Ode on a Grecian Urn).
Matthew Arnold says of this: “No, it is not all; but it is true, deeply true, and we have deep need to know it.... To see things in their beauty is to see things in their truth, and Keats knew it. ‘What the Imagination seizes on as Beauty must be Truth,’ he says in prose.”
Were it not sadder, in the years to come,
To feel the hand-clasp slacken for long use,
The untuned heart-strings for long stress refuse