Excerpt from The Plays of Maurice Maeterlinck: Princess Maleine the Intruder the Blind the Seven Princess

In a broad sense, all language is symbolism and all art is language. To the artist the material universe is a medium through which to express the immaterial realities of thought and feeling. There cannot be art except where the two elements are present together, - the immaterial passion, action or reflection, and the material embodiment by which it is made manifest through the senses to the instinct, intelligence and imagination of humanity. The one is the symbol - it would not exceed the modesty of prose to say, the sacrament of the other.

But Symbolism, as the name of a school, evidently demands a narrower definition. It must be distinguished from Realism on the one hand, and from Expressionism on the other, and these distinctions arise from radical psychological differences in men.

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