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#### 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