I need help finding the name of this poem plz! :)?

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did it go like this?

whats in a name?
a rose by which we call any other name would smell as sweet?

if it was thats a quote from romeo and juliet
 
The poem is famous.
I remember reading about it before in a class.
It was something about...

What is a name
but the thing by which one is called

or something like that!
It was a great poem.
Id really like to read it again!
Plz help me find it!
Thanks!
 
I think the poem you are talking about is a section from Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet". It goes like this:

(asterisks mine, to show you where the line is)

JULIET:
'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.
 
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