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Sorry for exposing my crappy English but would someone help me out? I'm writing a minuscule text that should go into a video.

Does a poet:
- cite from her second work or
- cite her second work (without from)

In this case I am talking about a woman who reads aloud (from) her second publication containing poems. She doesn't read the whole book. That's why I am urged to use from. However, on the internet I see more examples without from in combination with "to cite".

We have the word "dichtbundel" but the English word "posy" sucks incredibly imo. So I rather use "work".
 
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I would definitely use the transitive form (just "cite" + object). I have come across "cite from" before, but only rarely and almost exclusively in American English (try COCA?)
 
So also in combination with the object. Not object as in work (content, e.g. John Smith cites MacBeth), but as in author cites (from) own publication (of the work).
 
If she has a public reading and reads aloud from her second work, she cites from it.
She would cite it (without the from) if she, for instance, wrote an article in which she referred to it or quoted a part from it.

Good luck @Saapanael
 
I think that's irrelevant - you can cite a poem, a publication of a poem, you can cite MacBeth or Shakespeare, you can cite yourself. I get why would you want to use "from" (I'd be inclined to do so too), but IMHO it does not work that way.

But maybe Perun will correct me.

EDIT: And so he did! :ok:
 
Was in Hawaii most of the week (attended a wedding) .. the roving chickens/roosters around the island are really cool .. except at 4AM .. noisy bastards
 
So I'm hanging out with some fellow students after an exam, including a pretty cute girl, and a high school friend of mine who studies at the same uni comes by and starts talking to me and when he finally leaves, I realize the girl left too. Dammit! This is like the 3rd time he did this.
 
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