Isaac Leib Peretz: Quotes about heart

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

Isaac Leib Peretz: 122 quotes0 likes

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

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!

“"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.

“[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.

“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.