23. Address on Eurythmy

The importance of the eurythmic can be seen from the fact that the eurythmic can only be accompanied in a certain way in declamation and recitation. Today, we live in an unartistic time, and people love to work out the prose content of a poem, especially in declamation. Great and significant artists did not consider this to be the right approach. Rather, they always regarded as truly poetic that which is either pictorial or musical in language. Schiller, for example, always had an indeterminate melody in his soul before he had the literal prose content of the poem; this prose content then merely leaned against this indeterminate melody.