barbaric quotes

The people which ceases to care for its literary inheritance becomes barbaric; the people which ceases to produce literature ceases to move in thought and sensibility.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

-Whitman,Walt(er)
  Leaves of Grass,'Song of Myself', section 52.

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