41. Eurythmy Performance

In this way, eurythmy will in turn have a fruitful effect on artistic perception in other fields as well. Today we will attempt to show you a series of poems in a eurythmic presentation, which perhaps particularly lend themselves to this eurythmic presentation because they have already been felt to such an extent that that inner eurhythmy is already in them, or because they are so faithfully modeled on nature, as for example Goethe's 'Metamorphosis of Plants' is, that eurhythmy arises of its own accord. That is the peculiar thing: With poor poetry, eurythmy will not easily follow; but with poetry that is artistically felt from the outset – for which, however, our time has very little feeling – eurythmy will be able to follow. In particular, if they are what I would like to call nature impressions, which in creation presupposes a real going along of the human soul with nature.