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In truth, a task which none but a great poet could achieve!","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Speech as a Formed Gesture","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-09-07","location":null,"word_count":166,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/282/1924-09-07/p027","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Mary Adams","identified_edition":"APC1959","book_title":"Speech and Drama","publisher":"Anthroposophical Publishing Co.","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA282/English/APC1959/19240907d01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","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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