Address on Eurythmy

But eurythmy can also be related to the performing arts in a certain way. What a person experiences in their feelings is something that takes place intimately within the human being and which, I would say, is only expressed externally in an intimate way, for example when a person blushes with shame or turns pale with fear. We can already see that what lives in the feelings pours into the human organism, but in a restrained way. In contrast, we can shape feelings artistically in the musical element – and music has rightly been described as the art that deals primarily with human feelings. If we then consider another element in human soul life that is closer to the outside world than feeling, it is thinking, the world of ideas. This is then expressed through the will in language itself, and there we have in the linguistically formed world of ideas precisely what poetry shapes as art.