Place a colon at the end of the sentence that you want to place your long quotation after. "Shakespeare repeatedly uses hand imagery in 'Macbeth':"
Press "Enter" on your keyboard twice, leaving a blank line after your last sentence.
Tab over once to create a one inch margin. Type your long quotation.
Cite the long quotation with the author's last name, followed by the page number of the book from which you retrieved the quotation, inside of a pair of parentheses. Indicate the line number, if you are citing poetry or verse. (Shakespeare 2.1.33)
Press "Enter" twice and continue writing your essay at the left-hand margin.
"Shakespeare repeatedly uses hand imagery in 'Macbeth':
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? (Shakespeare 2.1.33)