Simon

“Cricket to us was more than play,
It was a worship in the summer sun.”
― Edmund Blunden

“There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.”
― J. S. Bach

“Beauty is gloriously useless; it has no purpose but itself.”
― David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss

“Materialists believe that absolutely everything, even the formal structures of culture and the intentional structures of consciousness, can be reduced without remainder to an ensemble of mechanistic interactions among intrinsically mindless physical elements; and I suppose anyone capable of believing that is capable of believing practically anything.”
― David Bentley Hart, A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays