Walt Whitman as “Leaves of Grass”

It’s often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but most authors prefer to do their story telling using words instead of pictures. What if pictures were made using words instead? Well, in some forms of typography based art, pictures are made up of words.

Check out these portraits of famous authors made using words from their own stories and poems.

Ibsen as “Hedda Gabler”

Borges as “The Secret Miracle”

Many more cool author word portraits below

G. B. Shaw as “Arms and the Man”

R.P. Warren as “Audubon/A Vision”

Robert Lowell as “History”

John Keats as “Lamia”