It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T.S. Eliot
T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888–1965), U.S.-British modernist poet. Eliot’s doctoral dissertation in philosophy; submitted to Harvard in 1916. Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F.H. Bradley, ch. 1, Columbia University Press (1964).