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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.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Eurythmy Performance","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-07-08","location":null,"word_count":163,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/277d/1923-07-08/p007","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"The Origin and Development of Eurythmy 1923–1925","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA277d/English/SOL2025/19230708e01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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