Hejinian describes Stein as participating in "nonredundant reiteration for the sake of particularization"
Stein, in 1935, asked to explain "A rose is a rose is a rose":
"We all know that it's hard to write poetry in a late age; and we know that you have to put some strangeness, something unexpected, into the structure of the sentence in order to bring back vitality to the noun."