Source: The Name of the Rose
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
Juliet, Act II, scene ii.
Variant: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Source: Romeo and Juliet (1595)
“What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name — and moving on.”
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.”
Forbearance http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/forebearance.htm
1840s, Poems (1847)
Source: The Ghost Brigades (2006), Chapter 13 (p. 288)
“Thank God,
my name isn't in the list of those
who died or were
killed yesterday!”
<span class="plainlinks"> Every Morning http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/every-morning-7/</span>
From Poetry
"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.
Love's Voice (c.1935–1939)
