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Favorite poems to teach new writers about line?

"If work is the Vietnam War, our homes are now Cambodia under secret bombardment." --Justin Smith-Ruiu

"You can’t spend many years intensely engaged with the Homeric poems without spending a lot of time contemplating fame or kleos, both its attractions and its terrible dangers."

"a wet road
flowing into sky at the top
of the hill
twin lights appear to descend
a friend is coming to visit"

--Jane Reichhold

"Not even death could put a stop to his photobombing of Keats’s life."