I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.
Howard NemerovRobert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.
Howard NemerovWhen you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.
Howard Nemerov