“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”
Walter Benjamin
“Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life”
Charles Lamb
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child”
William Shakespeare
“The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use”
Washington Irving
“Just as women’s bodies are softer than men’s, so their understanding is sharper.”
Christine de Pisan
“At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.”
Edmund Wilson
“No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds and doth belie All corners of the world; kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the”
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