"We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack." ― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Topic(s): Poetry More From Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach "He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated." "What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible." "Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate." More In Poetry "Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence."― J. G. Stedman "Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it’s the home of the extraordinary, the only home."― Philip Levine "To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry."― John Andrew Holmes