The famous phrase "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" was written by
Gertrude Stein in her 1913 poem "Sacred Emily" (later published in her 1922 book Geography and Plays).
Stein meant that simply using the name of a thing immediately evokes its imagery and essence. It is often interpreted as a statement of the law of identity ("A is A") or the modern expression "things are what they are" / "it is what it is".
Stein wanted to strip away tired literary symbols and force the reader to experience the word ("rose") directly for what it is. It is frequently contrasted with William Shakespeare's famous line in Romeo and Juliet ("A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"), which suggests names do not change an object's true value, whereas Stein suggested a name contains the unique identity of the thing itself.
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