Eurythmy Performance

And one can say: what we have before us when we sit down to read a book of poetry and read it as we read prose, where we mainly reflect on the fact that we are taking in the intellectual content, when we sit down to read a book of poetry, we actually have little more of the poem before us than we have in the score of any piece of music that we merely look at with our eyes. The poem only becomes a poem when it is translated into the linguistic element, when one hears the sound structure, the sound harmonies, the melodies, even if only in the mind, in the imagination. So that the poem only really comes into being when it is recited or declaimed, regardless of whether it is actually declaimed or recited or whether it is absorbed by an imagination so vivid in its sound formation and sound content that this very speech formation lives in the supersensible.