Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to All:   
      
   ak>  I was told by one guy that the words of the song should   
   ak>  be taken in quotation marks. Like this:   
      
   ak>  Maxim started, and probably, he was not very good:   
      
   ak>         "Bonfire is barely glowing   
   ak>         And darkness has covered the camp."   
      
   ak>  Should I do it or the indentation of the song's words is   
   ak>  enough?   
      
      
               Seems to me we're dealing with a matter of style here.  If this   
   guy is (e.g.) a university instructor who's marking your work or an editor   
   assigned by a publishing house with its own ideas, I'd suggest you do as he   
   says for the time being regardless of whether you and/or anyone else in E_T   
   agrees with him.   
      
               AFAIC the indentation of the song's words is enough.  You have   
   seen me do exactly as you did when I cite two lines or more from a song or a   
   poem... or an astute observation by a well-known & highly respected author   
   such as Mark Twain or Sir Winston Churchill.  Anne Stilman (USA) agrees that   
   that's how such things are generally handled in formal English.  You may see   
   some exceptions in newspaper & magazine articles, where the column width is   
   limited, or in Fidonet where we are writing informal "letters" to other club   
   members.  You'll also see them in novels where a fictitious dialogue goes on   
   at length.  If I didn't look further into the issue that's because my own   
   understanding has never evoked any negative remark even during the time I   
   spent as an English major at university. I could check out what the Brits have   
   to say on the subject.  But so could you, and evidently you prefer USAian   
   English for reasons I well understand....  :-))   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
    * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)