{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 277d/1923-07-21/p015","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"It is precisely the right art of recitation and declamation that reveals the true essence of poetry. For only those who can say with the poet, with complete inner understanding, “When the soul speaks, / alas, it is no longer the soul that speaks,” can find the essence of poetry. When the soul comes to our lips, into our words, which have long since lost their connection with the essence of the world, then we have prose, then we no longer have poetry. We only find poetry again when we return to the way in which, I would say in large and small waves, in oscillating waves and in angular waves, the sounds and words move in the verse, in the stanza, how the imagination flows through the iambus or the trochee or the like; when we gain the image, the imagination, or when we gain, as the real poet seeks, through meter, rhythm, through the melodic theme, to strike music out of language. Then we have arrived at what lies beyond the words, what is artistically shaped in the words, whereas today, in recitation and declamation, one often seeks mere prose punctuation, even if, as I said, a reaction is already taking place.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Eurythmy Performance","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-07-21","location":null,"word_count":204,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/277d/1923-07-21/p015","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/SOL2025/19230721e01.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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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"}],"english":["GA 277d/1923-07-21/p015"],"method":"identity","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":200,"en_words":204,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.99,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":2536,"original_word_count":2560,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","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/SOL2025/19230721e01.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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