medial // caesura

Her most famous quotation, "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" from her poem "Sacred Emily" always makes me think of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."   For Stein, the name is it; it evokes imagery and realities that are that word; because of what the word has meant, continues to mean, it encapsulates that thing/concept.  In the play, names don't signify reality, but are technicalities to be overcome. Stein's other famous quotation: "To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write[,]" makes me weary.  A sweet friend called me a writer yesterday when introducing me to someone else.  I've never called myself that.  I write, but I don't "write is to write" to the 8th degree.  Perhaps the word, writer, signifies too much to me; things/realities I know that I will never attain.  And then again, it's a technica...