It's not just the words...

I found this wonderful sketch while surfing the net tonight looking for images of calligraphy.
It's a beautiful example of zoomorphic calligraphy - and a curious melange of metaphors.

It reminds me of Neil Bartlett, commenting on his own translation of Racine's Bérénice; he said that encountering this play was like seeing a wild tiger in its cage - the tiger was the ferocity and passion of the story, while the bars of the cage were represented by Racine's beautiful but strict adherence to his alexandrines.

Here that analogy is made visual - the tiger is constructed from the brushstrokes of Arabic script.

All that, or else it's just a cool doodle ;)