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Anonymous · 1y

The poet John Keats once wrote (in his poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn"),

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

By contrast, Plato (in The Republic) warns of poetry's power to make a falsehood seem true, by beautifying it.

What, then, is the relationship between beauty, as achieved by the artist, and truth?

. . ?
I could actually need some time to think on this. I . . wouldn't know how to respond right now.

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