How do you admire a thing of beauty forever?

Answer 1

John Keats who wrote this very line has in his poem Ode On A Grecian Urn perfectly answered the question of how a thing of beauty forever can be admired, or how a thing of beauty can be admired forever.

Whatever rural beauties and majesties which appealed to him he praises and immortalises through this poem, which itself stands as a monument for his admiration.

But the more important aspect of the poem which opens up eternity for his admiration is the method of presenting those rural beauties before the reader. Those scenes are presented as carved and overpolished in a centuries-old grecian urn. That is his answer to this specific question.

One can carve and chisel his admiration (of a thing of beauty) in another thing of beauty like a clay pot or urn, which will carry the admiration through ages.