...singular? I'm including a quote, but in the particular situation, I'm referring to one thing when the quote is referring to several. Is it necessary to put [bracket] where it would say "brackets", or could I just use the singular version of the word without brackets.
Because I'd have to use them so many times, I feel like it would become sketchy or something.
Example:
Original Quote:
"music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.”
I need to change it a tiny bit because I'm not referring to music, but ALL different aspects of humanism.
Option 1-
American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote that different aspects of humanism “take us out of the actual and whisper to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.”
OR
Option 2 -
American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote that different aspects of humanism “[take] us out of the actual and [whisper] to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.”
Because I'd have to use them so many times, I feel like it would become sketchy or something.
Example:
Original Quote:
"music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.”
I need to change it a tiny bit because I'm not referring to music, but ALL different aspects of humanism.
Option 1-
American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote that different aspects of humanism “take us out of the actual and whisper to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.”
OR
Option 2 -
American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote that different aspects of humanism “[take] us out of the actual and [whisper] to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.”