Isaac Leib Peretz: Quotes about heart

Isaac Leib Peretz was Yiddish language author and playwright. Explore interesting quotes on heart.

Isaac Leib Peretz: 122 quotes 0 likes

“Genuine melody sings itself without a voice. It sings inside, within the heart, in man's very entrails!”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Mekubolim, 1906. Alle Verk, vi. 53.
Context: There are melodies that must have words... and melodies that sing themselves without words. The latter are of a higher grade. But these, too, depend on a voice and lips,... hence are not yet altogether pure, not yet genuine spirit. Genuine melody sings itself without a voice. It sings inside, within the heart, in man's very entrails!

Singing , Heart

“"May all unite to do Thy will with a perfect heart!"… Thus prays the Jew. Have you more beautiful prayers to offer?”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Advice to the Estranged, S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 348.

Beauty , Heart , Perfection

“[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole…. Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Quoted in Jewish Affairs (Johannesburg), June 1952, p. 28. See Alle Verk, xii. 318.

Love , Idea , Heart

“The song that from the heart would spring
Is dead for want of echoing.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

In Alien Lands, translated by Leah W. Leonard.

Spring , Heart , Dead