Horses make a landscape beautiful.
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.
The saying means that ‘artists are often extra sensitive to pain, loss, injustice, and beauty’. Their “broken heart” symbolizes:
– 💔 vulnerability
– 👁️ seeing deeper than others
– 🌍 perceiving the world through pain, empathy, and experience
– 🎨 transforming suffering into art, language, music, or imagery
The phrase “Through that broken window we see the world” is a metaphor: precisely because of the break—grief, disappointment, inner damage—a different perspective on reality emerges. Art often stems from what touches or wounds someone.
It therefore does not literally mean that an artist must always be unhappy, but rather that sensitivity and fragility are often part of artistic perception.
✍️ Author: Alice Walker
American writer, poet, and activist, best known for “The Color Purple”—for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. 🌍 Origin:
The original English version reads approximately:
> “The heart of a writer, the heart of a poet, the heart of an artist, the heart of a musician always breaks. It is through that broken window that we see the world.”
The quote circulates primarily as a modern literary statement and is attributed to Alice Walker on many English-language quote sites.
⚠️ Important note: the exact first source — for example, a specific essay collection, lecture, or interview — is not always reliably cited. It is therefore better to say:
> “Often attributed to Alice Walker.”
