Quote of the Day, and a sore tooth

now i'm thinking of how good the poetry was when poets engaged in battles of wit, where the stakes were raised by that fear of appearing ignorant to their opponents, to compete or survive in battle, they had to know what was going on all fronts, I mean, things like irony started appearing, I'm thinking of Socratic irony and the way to survive it for or against it, that or any literary agent, requires that motive you mention. Yum