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.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

History is where tensions were.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.