If a grape was a higher form of Me, what were these?

Yes, but not because it is a novel and therefore a higher form.

The political speech, she thought, was the highest form of communication.

Art in its higher form is therefore created by a totally new human being.

Some had gone up into a higher form, and felt rather grand for the first few days.

To say one can't put a book down is not the highest form of praise.

Once it must have been a higher form of life.

In the higher forms, however, he came into his own.

All he needed was a walk, a stop to see discipline in its highest form.

The highest forms are those that control all others and use them as they see fit.