# quote (writing)

a text that repeats content from a source

- Computed level: L8 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: language  ·  Arena: everyday

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [text](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-text.written), [repeats](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-repeats.action), [content](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-content.material), [source](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-source.origin)

**Through:** the text repeats content taken from a source

**Novel properties:**
- source attribution
- verbatim repeat

## Examples
- The U.S. Constitution's First Amendment quotes verbatim from England's 1689 Bill of Rights on free speech rights. *(institutions)*
- Linus Torvalds included a verbatim passage from Tanenbaum's Operating Systems textbook in the README of early Linux kernel code. *(computing)*
- The 1963 March on Washington speech by Martin Luther King Jr. quotes the 'I have a dream' refrain from earlier sermons by preacher J. W. E. Bowen. *(everyday life)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-quote.writing*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-quote.writing.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*