Keats distills the urns message down to these two simple, homey-sounding lines. Is this a cop-out, as T.S. Eliot famously believed? Or does the beauty of these lines, combined with their vague and confusing content, only prove the point that Keats wanted to make? And it’s a radical point, to be sure. If the speaker had his way, moral education would consist not of rules and life lessons, but of the experience of beauty. By the way, have you noticed how when you visit a beautiful place with other people, everyone acts a little nice