Eurythmy Performance

And one can declaim and recite a poem, as you will also see afterwards. What is declaimed and recited through poetry is simultaneously presented to the eye in the visible language of eurythmy from the stage. This brings out the depths of poetic art that cannot be brought out by spoken language, which is always dependent on thought. Great poets always have something musical or pictorial behind the words of their poetry. Schiller had something vaguely melodious in his soul, especially in his most significant poems. He did not yet have the words for the poem – he had something vaguely melodious. It was on this vaguely melodious basis that he first arranged the pure prose content, so to speak. It was only because it had something musical in the background that it became poetry. Other poets have something pictorial. They then use this pictorial imagination to shape what language makes possible in terms of sound formations and sound formulations.