
“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
Song of Myself, 52
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Dead Poets Society
“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
Song of Myself, 52
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 223
“I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.”
(July 1910)
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948)
Context: I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.
Bassics interview (1999)
"The Chantry Of The Cherubim" in The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (1917) by D. H. S. Nicholson.
Context: p>I buoyed me on the wings of dream,
Above the world of sense;
I set my thought to sound the scheme,
And fathom the Immense;
I tuned my spirit as a lute
To catch wind-music wandering mute.Yet came there never voice nor sign;
But through my being stole
Sense of a Universe divine,
And knowledge of a soul
Perfected in the joy of things,
The star, the flower, the bird that sings.Nor I am more, nor less, than these;
All are one brotherhood;
I and all creatures, plants, and trees,
The living limbs of God;
And in an hour, as this, divine,
I feel the vast pulse throb in mine.</p
“Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.”
2000-09, Ai Weiwei, Nursing Head Wound, Sharpens Criticism, 2009
Variant: Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.