Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas

Injia’s a wild land for a God-fearin’ man.
Rudyard Kipling • Kim (Illustrated edition)

by Robert Hass, the U.S. poet laureate from 1995 to 1997, in a twelve-minute tour of the role of awe in literature and poetry at a conference in Berkeley in 2016. As he detailed this idea, he embodied literary epiphanies with whoas, our ancient sounds of recognizing the sublime.
Dacher Keltner • Awe: The Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder


drunk as a Bandusian goat,
William Seabrook • Asylum
regardez-moi bien, c’est peut-être une fois, à chaque siècle, qu’on voit passer un être humain dont la chair proclame si haut qu’elle est une aventure éblouissante de l’espèce