From ‘Ode On A Grecian Urn’ (Link).
Is this a meaningful statement? If so, what does it mean to you?
What? Writing a term paper or something? 
In a nutshell, I would say it means: there are few absolutes in this world, but the inherent beauty of some things is so fully, objectively “obvious” that it represents an absolute - a Truth, a given, a tautology.
My $.02
Gah, I knew someone would think it was a homework question.
No, I’m a researcher in computational biology. It arises from a discussion over beers with an intellectual friend of mine. He recited the lines as though they were the greatest, most profound thing ever written. I thought they were nonsensical. I wondered what the Dopers thought.
Well, has your buddy explained WHY he thinks it is so profound? What was his reasoning?
What do you think of my interpretation?
It reminds me of the scene in Room With a View, when Helena Bonham Carter’s eventual love interest, played by Julian Sands, climbs a tree and acts totally weird, spouting off phrases like “truuuuuuuuth!!!” “Beauuuuuuuty!” and the like. You end up realizing that he is a passionate romantic, but from HBC’s character’s inital point of view, he comes across as a loon.
Why would truth equal beauty? What if something is ugly? Then isn’t ugliness its truth?