Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe wrote tales of horror and mystery, and The Raven (1845) made him famous. He is also credited with helping to create the detective story with The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841). He died in Baltimore in 1849 at the age of forty.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, / Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;
It was many and many a year ago, / In a kingdom by the sea,
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, / Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”