T. S. Eliot Quotes about Passion

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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional

We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

T. S. Eliot

Passion, Emotional, Justice

Justice itself tends to be corrupted by political passion.

T. S. Eliot

Peace, War, Passion

The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

T. S. Eliot

Passion, Majority, Humans

T. S. Eliot (2014). “Selected Essays”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?

T. S. Eliot

Passion, Heart, Sight

T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.31, Faber & Faber

Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

T. S. Eliot

Real, Passion, Mean