“An awareness of your mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.” - Bernie Siegel   Jan Autengruber (25...

“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.” - Charles Baudelaire   Josef Suk (4 January 1874 – 29 May...

“Prague is a dark place.” - Fred Durst   Antonín Chittussi (1 December 1847, in Ronov nad Doubravou – 1 May 1891, in Prague) was a Cze...

“I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and n...

“Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.” - Niki Lauda Johann Baptist Wanhal (May 12, 1739 – August 20, 1813), also spelled Waṅhal (th...

“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” - Franz Kafka Welcome to the Travel Tuesday meme! Join me every Tuesday a...

“The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the twenty-first century – or the twentieth or nineteenth, for that matter. It...

“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” - Pablo Casals Jan Lukas Zelenka (later Jan Dismas Zelenka ) w...

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” - Napoleon Bonaparte Zdenek Fibich (1850-1950) is the third of the so-called “Big Three...

“A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.” - Edmond de Goncourt A lovely piece b...

“But when the wearied band swoons to a waltz, I take her hand, and there we sit in peaceful calm, quietly sweating palm to palm.” - Aldou...

“But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.” - Arthur Rimbaud “ Rusal...