Is it True? Is a rose a rose by any other name?

Is it true? Do you suppose? Is it true?

As this moment too floats away into a memory

I wander ...and reflect

as a cloud might reflect on its purpose

its meaning

and this comes to mind.... 

" 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; 

Thou art thyself, 

though not a Montague.

What's Montague? 

it is nor hand, nor foot,

Nor arm, nor face, 

nor any other part

Belonging to a man. 

O, be some other name!

What's in a name? 

that which we call a rose

By any other name 

would smell as sweet;

So Romeo would, 

were he not Romeo call'd,

Retain that dear perfection 

which he owes

Without that title. 

Romeo, doff thy name,

And for that name 

which is no part of thee

Take all myself. "

~ Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, 1600: