Eurythmy Performance

GA 277d/1923-07-21/p020 ·1923-07-21 · 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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And poetry today is desperately searching for a way to express feeling, because we have already lost feeling in language. But if we want to reawaken this feeling today, then we must raise the whole language, I would say, to a higher level; then we must give everything that human beings can speak something like a heaven above speech, in which what lives in human souls is actually lived out in powerful forms. And when one comes to see that which language is but a shadow of, then an imaginative language emerges, where imaginations can be expressed through that which is now the microcosm, which is a small world, which is the human being, who can express all mysteries through his own form as a spatial being.

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