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#### Paragraphs

#### Paragraphs, line breaks, and quoting

Paragraphs are separated by at least one empty line. If you need to enforce a line break within a paragraph, use ‘`\\`’ at the end of a line.

To keep the line breaks in a region, but otherwise use normal formatting, you can use this construct, which can also be used to format poetry.

    #+BEGIN_VERSE
     Great clouds overhead
     Tiny black birds rise and fall
     Snow covers Emacs

         -- AlexSchroeder
    #+END_VERSE

When quoting a passage from another document, it is customary to format this as a paragraph that is indented on both the left and the right margin. You can include quotations in Org mode documents like this:

    #+BEGIN_QUOTE
    Everything should be made as simple as possible,
    but not any simpler -- Albert Einstein
    #+END_QUOTE

If you would like to center some text, do it like this:

    #+BEGIN_CENTER
    Everything should be made as simple as possible, \\
    but not any simpler
    #+END_CENTER