"Love is the bellows; it stirs the blood of lovers.
It smelts them, pouring through many molds and making them silver."
Identify the work from which the quote comes, and the work's author, and approximate date it was written. If appropriate, identify the speaker or character. Explain the significance of the quote (ie. its message, symbols and/or role in the overall narrative plot) and how it relates to the literary work (or that genre of literary works) as a whole.