Eurythmy Performance

For only that which gives immediate insight into what humans experience in images can be artistic. We therefore see that singing becomes more artistic the more it succeeds in completely overcoming the word and, so to speak, returning to musical sound design. In language, the poet must strive to remove that which is there for the rationality of language, through which language seeks to communicate from person to person. He must overcome that through which language is an expression of abstract thoughts, of the actual meaning. And if he wants to be a real, artistic poet, he must condescend to seek what he wants to reveal in the formation of language, either in the pictorial formation — how one sound illuminates another, how one sound illuminates or darkens itself, and the like — or he must seek it in the musical formation of the sequence of sounds, in the rhythmic, the rhythmic, the melodic-thematic, the revelation of what is experienced by the soul.