On the Sublime

Sublimity is a kind of eminence or excellence of discourse. It is not an essential property of language but rather makes itself known by the effect it produces, and that effect is one of ravishment.
Whatever knocks the reader out is sublime.
Sublime language disrupts everyday consciousness.
It is great writing that takes the readers out of himself. It tears everything up like a whirlwind, and exhibits the orator's whole power at a single blow.
The sublime produces ecstasy rather than persuasion in the hearer. This combination of wonder and astonishment always proves superior to the merely persuasive and pleasant. Persuasion is on the whole something we can control, whereas amazement and wonder exert invincible power and force and get the better of every hearer.
"Hypsous" is the state of transport and exaltation. The moment of hypsous becomes a struggle for dominance between opposing forces. The sublime not only produces an identification between speaker and audience but entails a modification in relations of power between the parties involved, and the diversity of ways in which such modifications may be conceptualized is at the heart of critical debates regarding the sublime.

Discourse in the Peri Hypsous (on Great Writing) is a power struggle.
The Longinian sublime appears in a climate of antagonism, as rivalry between authors.

For Longinus, who believes that "sublimity will be achieved if we consistently select the most important of those inherent features and learn to organize them as a unity by combining one with another, the ability "to select and organize material" is one of the factors that "can make our writing sublime".