"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 "In youth we learn; in age we understand." "Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate." "What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible." More In Poetry "Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."― Charles Baudelaire "I’ve written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck."― J. Michael Straczynski "Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them."― Allen Tate