Lightning flickering
without sound . . . how far away 
the night-heron cries! 
To quote 1-3 lines of poetry in your text simply enclose them in quotation marks within your text. Don't forget to list the line numbers at the end. Separate each line with a /
Basho writes, "Lightning flickering / without sound" (1-2).
 Four lines of verse or more should be indented one inch from
 the left margin.  Don't use the / marks to separate the lines.