If you need to insert something within a quotation, use a pair of brackets to enclose the addition. Maintain double spacing as in the main text, and do not use quotation marks for the block quotation. When you quote a single line of poetry, write it like any other short quotation. Two lines can be run into your text with a slash mark to indicate the end of the first line. Use quotation marks.
Some writers prefer to set off two-line verse quotations also, for emphasis.
Quote the poem line by line as it appears on the original page, and do not use quotation marks. Indent one inch from the left margin. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. Writing Dialogue Write each person's spoken words, however brief, as a separate paragraph. Closely related narrative prose can be included in a paragraph with dialogue.