
„Es wird niemals Rosen regnen:
Wenn wir mehr Rosen haben wollen, müssen wir mehr Rosen pflanzen.“
Die Welt ist rund/The World Is Round, 1939
Original engl.: "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." - Sacred Emily, 1913
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
"Sacred Emily"
This statement, written in 1913 and first published in Geography and Plays, is thought to have originally been inspired by the work of the artist Sir Francis Rose; a painting of his was in her Paris drawing-room.
See also the Wikipedia article: Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
Nigel Rees explains the phrase thus: "The poem 'Sacred Emily' by Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) is well-nigh impenetrable to the average reader but somehow it has managed to give a format phrase to the language. If something is incapable of explanation, one says, for example, 'a cloud is a cloud is a cloud.' What Stein wrote, however, is frequently misunderstood. She did not say 'A rose is a rose is a rose,' as she might well have done, but 'Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose' (i.e. no indefinite article at the start and three not two repetitions.) The Rose in question was not a flower but an allusion to the English painter, Sir Francis Rose, 'whom she and I regarded' wrote Constantine Fitzgibbon, 'as the peer of Matisse and Picasso, and whose paintings — or at least painting — hung in her Paris drawing-room while a Gauguin was relegated to the lavatory.'" - Sayings of the Century, page 91
Geography and Plays (1922)
„Es wird niemals Rosen regnen:
Wenn wir mehr Rosen haben wollen, müssen wir mehr Rosen pflanzen.“
„Die Zeit, die du für deine Rose verloren hast, sie macht deine Rose so wichtig.“
„Das Herz und die Rose sind das einzig unvergängliche.“
„Eine Rose gebrochen, ehe der Sturm sie entblättert.“
Emilia Galotti: Ein Trauerspiel in fünf Aufzügen
„Gott schenkt uns Erinnerungen, damit wir Rosen haben im Dezember.“
Armuth, Reichthum, Schuld und Buße der Gräfin Dolores, Erster Band, in der Realschul Buchhandlung, Berlin, Erste Abtheilung, Achtes Kapitel, S. 54, books.google.de https://books.google.de/books?id=E25KAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA54&dq=%22liebe+Jugend,+sollst+wachen+und+schaffen%22,