Essayist Tapestries

With this image, we celebrate African-American writer Wallace Thurman, the author of The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life

Ralph Waldo Emerson and quote: Nothing Great Was Ever Achieved Without Enthusiasm.

Leo Tolstoy portrait and quote: If you feel pain, you're alive, if you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

Anaïs Nin quote: We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Virginia Woolf was an English Writer. She is best known for her novels, but she also wrote pioneering essays on artistic theory, literary history, women’s writing, and the politics of power.

Anaïs Nin portrait and a quote of Talmudic origin: We Don’t See Things As They Are, We See Them As We Are

Emil Cioran portrait and quote: Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

Emil Cioran portrait and quote: A book is a suicide postponed.

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: “Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”

Emil Cioran portrait and quote: Tears do not burn except in solitude.

Leo Tolstoy portrait and quote: Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Hawk flying and an Anaïs Nin quote: We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

A good quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Old dead guys (the ancients) probably thought up your amazing thought long ago (or maybe not.) Perhaps you are truly an original!

Emil Cioran portrait and quote: Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

With this image, we celebrate Giuseppe Ungaretti, a leading poet of Ermetismo.

Robert Louis Stevenson Portrait | Robert Louis Stevenson Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer

Robert Louis Stevenson Golden Portrait | Robert Louis Stevenson Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer

Robert Louis Stevenson Portrait | Robert Louis Stevenson Artwork | Robert Louis Stevenson Painting on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer

Václav Havel (5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech writer, philosopher, dissident, and statesman. From 1989 to 1992, he served as the last president of Czechoslovakia. He then served as the first president of the Czech Republic (1993–2003) after the Czech–Slovak split. Within Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs. The Civic Forum (Czech: Občanské fórum, OF) was a political movement in the Czech part of Czechoslovakia, established during the Velvet Revolution in 1989. The corresponding movement in Slovakia was called Public Against Violence (Slovak: Verejnosť proti násiliu - VPN). The Civic Forum's purpose was to unify the dissident forces in Czechoslovakia and to overthrow the Communist regi...

Robert Louis Stevenson Green Portrait | Robert Louis Stevenson Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer

Robert Louis Stevenson Snow Portrait | Robert Louis Stevenson Snow Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer

Fyodor Dostoyevsky portrait and some of his novellas and novels

Sea and Anaïs Nin quote: The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky portrait and some of his novellas and novels

Robert Louis Stevenson Abstract Portrait | Robert Louis Stevenson Abstract Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer

Stop quoting dostoyevsky and explain yourself

Retro James Baldwin Tribute

With this image, we celebrate German writer Alfred Döblin, the author of Berlin Alexanderplatz.

Emil Cioran portrait and quote: Tears do not burn except in solitude.

Thomas Mann portrait and quote: “Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.”

Robert Louis Stevenson Colourful Portrait | Robert Louis Stevenson Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer

Robert Louis Stevenson Colourful Portrait | Robert Louis Stevenson Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer

Robert Louis Stevenson Portrait | Robert Louis Stevenson Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer

Robert Louis Stevenson Portrait | Robert Louis Stevenson Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer

a perpetually relevant quote by German author Thomas Mann

Robert Louis Stevenson Portrait | Robert Louis Stevenson Artwork on prints, stickers, mugs, tshirts, canvases, wall art and more. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer