"Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate." ― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Topic(s): Poetry More From Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach "We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack." "He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated." "In youth we learn; in age we understand." More In Poetry "Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain."― Marcus Tullius Cicero "Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."― Karl Shapiro "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."― Wilfred Owen