Eurythmy Performance

And so there are either musical or plastic images that stand before our soul when we want to enter into the intimacies of language. And when we understand these images, only then do we come to understand the wonderful connection that exists between our entire soul life, our entire emotional life, and language. And we learn to recognize how, on the one hand, ordinary speech in humans extends to thinking, but on the other hand, it extends physically down to the blood circulation. For even though it is not possible to feel the pulse changing when saying “i” and “u,” the change is nevertheless present on a small scale. One could even speak of a microscopic—you know, figuratively speaking—of a microscopic change in the pulse when a person feels deeply what the soul experiences in the course of a word or a sentence by living into the intimacies of the speech sounds or singing tones. We would have to look for those movements that correspond to ordinary speech or singing, which therefore carry within them the thought, which is actually an inartistic element; we would have to look for this human movement in human blood.