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Quoted poetry of a line or less can be added within your text. Use 1 forward slash (/) to indicate a break in a line and 2 forward slashes (//) to indicate a break in a stanza.
Example of quoted poem with a line break
Reflecting on the “incident” in Baltimore, Cullen concludes, “Of all the things that happened there / That’s all that I remember.”
Example of quoted poem with a stanza break
The Tao te ching, in David Hinton’s translation, says that the ancient masters were “so deep beyond knowing / we can only describe their appearance: // perfectly cautious, as if crossing winter streams. . . .”
For a block quotation, take into account the following:
Block verse reproducing indents
In E. E Cummings “I Have Found What You Are Like”, the poet compares a woman smiling with the rain
i have found what you are like the rain. (Who feathers frightened fields with the superior dust-of-sleep. wields … (lines 1-4)