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.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  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.

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