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[cowboymathu]

I read this sentence from a news paper that "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose". As mentioned there it must be a popular quote but I doubt on the grammar of this. Could someone make me understand? If it is correct give me some more similar sentences which can be used in day to day life.

[Clare James]

It's a quotation from a poem written in 1913 by an American modernist poet called Gertrude Stein. (There's a website all about her on Gertrude Stein Online )

She had a very odd relationship with grammar and as a poet was interested in exploring the effects of disrupting the normal patterns of language use.

As with most poetry, it sounds a bit peculiar if you start to use it in everyday English!

[rewboss]

It's a quotation from a poem written in 1913 by an American modernist poet called Gertrude Stein.

Ah, Gertrude Stein -- she was the one who didn't believe in punctuation, wasn't she?

As a matter of fact, this construction is occasionally used to mean: "You can't differentiate between different types of this object," although we normally only say it two or three times.

For example, "A rose is a rose is a rose" would mean, "All roses are the same".

[cowboymathu]

Thanks for your valuable replys.