Eurythmy Performance

GA 277d/1923-04-08/p006 ·1923-04-08 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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Now, the intellectual is always inartistic. We therefore see how the poet, who must make use of the intellectual element, struggles to overcome this intellectual element at the same time as he makes use of it. For the real poet, it is not at all important what the prose content of the thought of his poetry is, but how he grasps this thought through, I would say, painting in sound, through rhythm, through the thematic element, through the melodious element in the formation of sound, how he treats it.

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