If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if we feel, we would that another's nerves should vibrate to our own, that the beams of their eyes should kindle at once and mix and melt into our own, that lips of motionless ice should not reply to lips quivering and burning with the heart's best blood. This is Love.


The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley... Ed.... by Richard Herne Shepherd (ed. 1810)

Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if we feel, we...

If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if we feel, we...

If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if we feel, we...

If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if we feel, we...