33. Eurythmy Performance
There is no doubt that what the poet can only find halfway, namely this return to the artistic element with language, can also be made visible. And this is indeed achieved through what is attempted with eurythmy. What the musical element alone cannot achieve is indeed made possible: the revelation of the emotional and volitional experience of the human being in the tone itself, in the sound itself, the experience of that which has already been completely effaced and lost in the grammatically prosaic treatment of language; so that the truly poetic element of a poem can indeed visible language, as eurythmy is, can particularly express the actual poetry of a poem.
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