'What comes out is the most sublime piece of heaven,' she says about it.
Each has appeared on the other's albums, and in 2002 they made a quietly sublime duo record, "Heaven".
Dante's hell, with its nine levels leading to Satan frozen in a lake of ice, is a parodistic inversion of the sublime order of heaven; even here, justice prevails in the precise conformity of punishment to crime.
Leaning out into the traffic, he said, "Now I am going to switch from the sublime motion of the heavens to the mundane motion of the cars" — and gave a little talk, his voice occasionally cracking, on the timing patterns of the city's thousands of stoplights.
Of the bliss that is Heaven, Dante makes sublime images: flames and roses, rivers and rainbows.
By contrast, in the late seventies, two great movies of sublime scale, "Apocalypse Now" and "Heaven's Gate," lost that balance.
Blackstar is effectively a loving goodbye to the world, and songs such as Lazarus ("Look at me, I'm in heaven") and the sublime Dollar Days offer insights into illness, mortality and afterlife that were designed to be listened to once the reasons for their offering had been made clear.
Joseph Warton in 1756 cited Milton's splendid topographical settings, especially Eden in Paradise Lost, and praised the flights of sublime imagination that elevated readers into heaven and near the throne of God.
Everything in Heaven should be utterly sublime.
On her screen I saw the Star Walk app and suddenly the heavens were mapped in sublime colours.
