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“Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness”
- Source
- Endymion
- Date
- 1818
Meaning of “Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into…”
The continuation imagines beauty as something whose value can deepen in memory and imagination rather than simply fading with the moment.
Where does it come from?
Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1818), Book I, lines 2–3, Project Gutenberg #24280. “Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness” directly continues the opening “A thing of beauty” claim inside Keats’s idealizing Romantic account of beauty and imagination; it is poetry, not an experimentally established law of aesthetic memory or wellbeing.
