soul and form.

"The critic is one who glimpses destiny in forms: whose most profound experience is the soul-content which forms indirectly and unconsciously conceal within themselves. Form is his great experience, form -- as immediate reality -- is the image-element, the really living content of his writings. This form, which springs from a symbolic contemplation of life symbols, acquires a life of its own through the power of that experience. It becomes a world-view, a standpoint, and attitude vis-à-vis the life from which it sprang: a possibility of reshaping it, of creating it anew. The critic's moment of destiny, therefore, is that moment at which things become forms -- the moment when all feelings and experiences on the near or the far side of form receive form, are melted down and condensed into form."

Georg Lukács, 1910.

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