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The way it takes up thoughts, especially within our present-day civilization, has even led to our losing poetry through the intellectualization of poetry. This is most evident in the fact that, although reactions against this have rightly made themselves felt, we are no longer able to recite and declaim in the usual way. Dr. Steiner has spent years working hard to rediscover declamation and recitation in their true form.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":100,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/277d/1923-07-21/p014","authorship":{"kind":"report","is_steiner":null,"speaker":null,"note":"This passage speaks ABOUT Rudolf Steiner in the third person, so it is most likely a report, minutes, or an editorial summary rather than his own words. 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So wie sie den Gedanken gerade innerhalb unserer heutigen Zivilisation aufnimmt, hat das sogar schon dazu geführt, dass wir über dem Gedanklich-Machen der Dichtung die Dichtung verloren haben. Es zeigt sich das ja am meisten darinnen, dass, obzwar auch dagegen schon wiederum Reaktionen mit Recht sich geltend gemacht haben, dass wir heute nicht mehr in der gewohnten Art rezitieren und deklamieren können. Frau Doktor Steiner hat eben mit großer Mühe jahrelang das Deklamieren und Rezitieren wiederum gesucht in seiner wahren Gestalt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":120,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/277d/1923-07-21/p014"},{"locus":"GA 277d/1923-07-21/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Gerade die richtige Kunst des Rezitierens und Deklamierens, sie zeigt, wo eigentlich das Wesen der Dichtung liegt. Denn das Wesen der Dichtung findet nur derjenige, der mit vollem innerem Verständnis mit dem Dichter zu sagen weiß: «Spricht die Seele, so spricht, / ach, schon die Seele nicht mehr.» Wenn die Scele auf die Lippen kommt, in unsere Worte hinein, die längst ihren Zusammenhang mit dem Wesenhaften der Welt verloren haben, dann haben wir Prosa, dann haben wir nicht mehr Dichtung. Wir finden erst die Dichtung wiederum, wenn wir zurückgehen zu der Art und Weise, wie sich, ich möchte sagen in großen und kleinen Wellen, in schwingenden Wellen und in eckigen Wellen die Laute und die Worte im Vers, in der Strophe bewegen, wie sich die Imagination durch den Jambus oder den Trochäus oder dergleichen hindurchzieht; wenn wir das Bild, die Imagination gewinnen oder wenn wir gewinnen, wie der wirkliche Dichter sucht, durch Takt, Rhythmus, durch das melodische Thema aus der Sprache Musik herauszuschlagen. Dann sind wir zu dem, was über den Worten liegt, gekommen, was in den Worten künstlerisch gestaltet, während man heute im Rezitieren und Deklamieren vielfach eine bloße Prosapointierung sucht, wenn auch, wie gesagt, schon eine Reaktion eintritt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":200,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/277d/1923-07-21/p015"},{"locus":"GA 277d/1923-07-21/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Aber im Ganzen müssen wir festhalten daran, dass man eine dichterische Schöpfung eigentlich nur dann voll vor sich hat, wenn man Folgendes berücksichtigt: Der Rezitator, der Deklamator, der ist nur in der Lage, Worte auszusprechen. Alles Künstlerische kommt darauf an, wie er die Worte ausspricht. 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