“What's in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Juliet, Act II, scene ii.
Variant: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Source: Romeo and Juliet (1595)
“Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.”
— Umberto Eco, book The Name of the Rose
Source: The Name of the Rose
Last update June 3, 2021. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names." by Umberto Eco?
Umberto Eco120
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic… 1932–2016Related quotes
“What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name — and moving on.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“Hast thou named all the birds without a gun;
Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Forbearance http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/forebearance.htm <br class="br">1840s, Poems (1847)
“Thank God,
my name isn't in the list of those
who died or were
killed yesterday!”
Suman Pokhrel (1967) Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
<span class="plainlinks"> Every Morning http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/every-morning-7/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry
Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) Russian author
"Tomorrow" (1919), as translated in A Soviet Heretic : Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1970) edited and translated by Mirra Ginsburg
Context: Yesterday, there was a tsar, and there were slaves; today there is no tsar, but the slaves remain; tomorrow there will be only tsars. We march in the name of tomorrow's free man — the royal man. We have lived through the epoch of suppression of the masses; we are living in an epoch of suppression of the individual in the name of the masses; tomorrow will bring the liberation of the individual — in the name of man. Wars, imperialist and civil, have turned man into material for warfare, into a number, a cipher. Man is forgotten, for the sake of the sabbath. We want to recall something else to mind: that the sabbath is for man.
The only weapon worthy of man — of tomorrows's man — is the word.
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic
Love's Voice (c.1935–1939)