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Originally Posted by phillipgessert
Rationalize it to myself with, I don't lose anything by stretching the definition that I don't also lose by using a div
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There's a slight difference. If you want to be compliant, you are not allowed to have bare text inside a <blockquote>, it must be inside some <p>, <div> or something, but you can have text directly inside <div>.
Personally, I tend to use <blockquote> for letters, newspaper clips, handwritten notes, etc., where the text is the main content; and <div> for signs, visit cards... which often have more complex layout or formatting. For poetry, it's a <div>, with <div> for stanzas and <div> for lines... but it could all be inside a <blockquote> if appropriate.