Who said “Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of…”?

“A poet is born not made.”

“Poetry’s a mere drug, Sir.”

“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

“The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it.”

“Poetry must be new as foam, and as old as the rock.”

“Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.”

“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.”

“And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?”

“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”

“The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”

“There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles II. But the seamen were not gentlemen, and the gentlemen were not seamen.”