Address on Eurythmy

This movement of the arms and hands is now a perfect expression of what poetry is – just like spoken language itself. However, while the movements of the arms and hands, in the movements of the whole person during visible singing, actually express more of what accompanies the music as feelings from the soul, eurythmic speech, when used correctly, actually brings everything pictorial, melodious, rhythmic, and also the content of the language to a real revelation. This enables us to bring to visible expression what the poet puts into his work of art as, I might say, an inner eurythmy, as an expression of the whole human being. And this gives us the opportunity to express the dramatic and poetic in a higher style than through ordinary facial expressions.