Dictionary Merriam-Webster. Poëzie hardop gezongen, Voor wie dit hoort ... | Luisterlied-Poezie & Literatuur | FONOS.nl. The Phrase Finder. Meaning The meaning most often attributed to this is the notion that when all is said and done, a thing is what it is. This is in similar vein to Shakespeare's 'a rose by any other name would smell as sweet'. However, that's not the interpretation given by the author of the phrase - see below.
Origin The line is from Gertrude Stein's poem Sacred Emily, written in 1913 and published in 1922, in Geography and Plays. The verbatim line is actually, 'Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose': Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose Loveliness extreme. When asked what she meant by the line, Stein said that in the time of Homer, or of Chaucer, "the poet could use the name of the thing and the thing was really there. " Stein was certainly fond of the line and used variants of it in several of her works: - Do we suppose that all she knows is that a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
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