Le Dandy doit aspirer a'   e"  tre sublime, sans interruption. Il doit vivre et dormir devant un miroir. The dandymust aspiretobesublimeat all times.Hemust live and sleep in front of a mirror.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Mon coeur mis a'   nu, pt.5.

You have been called to hold a high position, but not a safe one; a sublime position, but not a secure one. How terrible, how very terrible is the place you hold!

-St Bernard of Clairvaux
c.1145  Letter to Eugenius III shortly after he had became Pope, on the dangers of the growth of papal power. Collected in B S James (ed and trans)  The Letters of St Bernard of Clairvaux (1953).

Je ne suis pas innocente. L'innocence est une science du sublime. Et je ne suis qu'au tout de¤  but de l'apprentissage. I am not innocent.Innocence is a science of thesublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

-Cixous, He¤  le'  ne
  Vivre l'orange/ To Live the Orange (bilingual text, translated by Ann Liddle and Sarah Cornell).

'Mindandmatter,'saidthelady inthewig,'glideswift into the vortex of immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^4  A Transcendental literary lady. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.34.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in timeö To let the punishment fit the crime.

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
   The Mikado's song, The Mikado, act 2.

Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.'

-Graham, Harry
  Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes,'Equanimity'.

It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me†for all these accumulated associations, with whatever is sweet, and honourable, and sublime, there yet lurks an elusive something in the innermost idea of this hue, which strikes more of a panic to the soul than that redness which affrights in blood.

-Melville, Herman
  Ishmael. Moby Dick, ch.42.

One step above the sublime, makes the ridiculous; and one step above the ridiculous, makes the sublime again.

-Paine,Thomas
  TheAge of Reason, pt.2.

I know not how it wasöbut, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit† There was aniciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heartöan unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime.

-Poe, EdgarAllan
  'The Fall of the House of Usher', in the Gentleman's Magazine, Sep.

For three years, out of key with his time, He strove to resuscitate the dead art Of poetry; to maintain'the sublime' In the old sense.Wrong from the startö No, hardly, but seeing he had been born In a half savage country, out of date.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, pt.1.