Address on Eurythmy

The fact that eurythmy has something to do with music and poetry, appearing in a sense as a sister art, becomes particularly clear when one is compelled to accompany the eurythmic performance with what can be expressed in poetry through recitation, the declamation of the poem itself. An unartistic age such as ours demands that recitation emphasize the prose content of a poetic work of art. This is something that artistic sensibilities—such as those of Goethe or Schiller—did not understand at all.