Friedrich Schiller on the sublime

"Beauty, under the shape of the divine Calypso, bewitched the virtuous son of Ulysses, and the power of her charms held him long a prisoner in her island. For long he believed he was obeying an immortal divinity, whilst he was only the slave of sense; but suddenly, an impression of the sublime ... seizes him; he remembers that he is called to a higher destiny - he throws himself into the waves, and is free."