Intellectual Passion - A Case For Living Life With Passion & Intellect

"There isn't anything as wonderful as a fierce intellectual person" Arundhati Roy. For the truth to surface, it has always been maintained that a strong separation of intellect from our feelings is required. Any academic or intellectual work that is tainted with emotions or feelings is considered as biased and lack veracity. At least that's what the academics believe.

There is some truth to this, and it is necessary to have this separation to push forth scientific work. But a writer's life is different. In life, art, and literature, emotions and passion cannot be separated from the intellectual rigmarole of the craft or art. It is the very essence of it. Separating emotion would not be a life worth living(and remember, artists consider their work as their life, not a piece of academic work to be analysed and held up as perfect). Give me passion, emotion, love, or give me death.

Even an intellectual like Hitchens, Dawkins & Sagan were passionate about what they wrote and lived with great conviction that what they were doing was the right thing. Of course, with plenty of evidence to support their case. The most amazing people that have ever existed used their intellect with their passion... no separation... no stoic expressions... just life and emotive writing.

A smouldering hearth of ashes
The heat dimly lingers, offering a picture of warmness,
But it is off no use...
no life...
no warmth...
no... this is not life

Life is emotion,
Life is passion,
Life is intellect,
But above all, life is love,

Burn the fire of passion,
Fire of love and compassion,
The warmth returns ever glorious,
My home is mine at last!

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