“A great singer is he who sings our silences”

“Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?”

“There was a man with tongue of wood who essayed to sing,and in truth it was lamentable;but there was one who heard the clip-clapper of this tongue of wood,and knew what the man wished to sing,and with that the singer was content.”

“Fold your arms round me close and strain me so that our hearts may break and our souls go free at last. Take me to that happy place of which you told me long ago. The fields whence none return, but where great singers sing their songs forever.”

“They call her my singer—because her blood sings for me.”

“None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn’t enough.”