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The question and my response are below. Is the Frost quote cited properly and any suggestions would be appreciated:

7. Is there other information about yourself that you consider important which has not been covered in the previous questions?

As I first began toying with the idea of pursuing a Master's degree, I remembered a few lines of Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken:

Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

Today I find myself at a crossroad. I have the desire, means and time to pursue the goals I set years ago. I know the level I seek is high, but I believe I can contribute to the academic discourse at this level.

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First, let me answer your citation question, and then I'll comment on the response itself.

Titles of poems should be enclosed in quotation marks: "The Road Not Taken" (I've left off sentence punctuation here so as not to be confusing; in your sentence, the colon would be placed after the closing quote marks.) When you quote three or more lines, you do set them off, indented and single-spaced, so your format is correct for the lines you present. (In some circumstances, you would also provide the line numbers for the lines cited, but that is not ...

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