Address on Eurythmy

These things will gradually be discovered from the essence of eurythmy. They have been inherent for a long time. We must bear in mind that eurythmy is still in its infancy and that it will continue to develop further and further. However, it is already apparent that the secrets of language only really reveal themselves when one begins to understand the essence of eurythmy. It is therefore also apparent that recitation and declamation themselves must be transferred from what they are today in a somewhat inartistic age—where the prosaic is actually emphasized or highlighted in poetry, and the essential is sought in the prosaic highlighting of the poetic— that this declamatory and recitative style must in turn be carried over to where Goethe had it, who rehearsed his iambic dramas with his actors according to rhythm and beat — which was much more important to him — as [he] rehearsed his iambs with a baton like a conductor; in other words, less the prosaic content and more the musical and imaginative aspects of speech formation.