Eurythmy Performance

GA 277d/1923-07-08/p008 ·1923-07-08 · 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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One can say that in this respect, the very least of what passes for poetry in today's somewhat unartistic age is real poetry, in fact no poetry at all; ninety-nine percent of what is written today is certainly not poetry, but at most one percent. For the poet must not express the spirit through language, but let the spirit flow in language, that is, seek revelation in the pictorial and musical aspects of language.

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