Who said “Poetry is the utterance of truth — deep, heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the…”?

“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.”

“Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.”

“[N]ever does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.”

“An aged Christian, with the snow of time on his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest that are nearest heaven.”

“Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.”

“The essence of justice is mercy.”

“Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.”