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Poetry and the Art of Speech: Lecture VIII
Translated by Julia Wedgwood, Andrew Welburn

The only conceivable possibility is that the psychic and spiritual stand as abstract as can be in well-worn conceptual forms over against the solid material facts (to adopt an expression from the German classical period) – and those include the human organs and their functions in the human being. A true understanding of the close collaboration between the spiritual-super-sensible and the physical-perceptible is reached, however, only by one who everywhere sees spiritual events still vibrating on in material events.
This, however, underlies particularly the art of poetry.
Poetry and the Art of Speech: Lecture IX
Translated by Julia Wedgwood, Andrew Welburn

We speak of how man broke away from those regions he inhabited while still under the direct influence of the Godhead, where the Godhead still held sway in his will. It is true that we speak of the Fall of Man as a necessary preparatory stage of freedom: but we also speak of the Fall in such a way that, to the extent that he became man forsaken by God, man lost that divinely inwoven strength in the interweaving of his words.
From a certain point of view it is indeed a praiseworthy undertaking, provided one is always conscious of the fact that it was an attempt to raise a sacred treasure at a time when man had been long alienated from the gods.
Under clouded heavens he held his way Till there rose before him the high-roofed house, Wine-hall of warriors gleaming with gold.
Poetry and the Art of Speech: Decline and Re-edification
Translated by Julia Wedgwood, Andrew Welburn

It was not Rudolf Steiner’s way to shroud great words in the secrecy of the occult: he paved the way for them through genuine understanding and inner apprehension. What he laid open to us became a matter of perception, something consciously grasped, an activity consciously undertaken. We were able, under his guidance, to scale the first rungs of the ladder. Then he gave us our freedom. In us his word was to become a courageous venture and accomplishment.
We are under no illusion that the world will bring any but a meagre understanding to bear on our endeavours. We shall be understanding, even if some honest student at first casts this book impatiently and despairingly aside.
Poetry and the Art of Speech: Preface
Translated by Julia Wedgwood, Andrew Welburn

[2] I was induced to undertake a rendering of this scene by the consideration that poetic effects in German and English are obtained by very different means.
In practice a certain irregularity and variety were always introduced into its perfect symmetry; but the underlying ratio remains constant. [6] The reader may be aided in following this description by the account Steiner had given a year earlier in the cycle The Study of Man (London 1966), especially Lecture 2: this discusses in more detail the progressive series of inner activities reaching from active volition, through the intermediate stages of image-formation and representation, to the contemplative extreme of concept-formation.
See text on [“A true understanding of the close collaboration between the spiritual-super-sensible and the physical-perceptible is reached…”] in that lecture.
Poetry and the Art of Speech: Notes by the Translators
Translated by Julia Wedgwood, Andrew Welburn

Whilst still in Russia, as a promising young actress in St. Petersburg, Marie von Sivers had studied under Maria Strauch-Spettini, one of the prominent figures on the stage of the German Imperial Theatre.
On the one hand it is made the vehicle of social understanding, and on the other it serves to communicate logical, intellectual knowledge. In both spheres the “Word” loses all value of its own.
Work on this volume began some years ago, having been originally undertaken by Maud Surrey for the benefit of her pupils, but she was regrettably unable to complete it before her death.
281. The Art Of Recitation And Declamation: Ludwig Uhland Matinée 01 Dec 1912, Berlin

The other thing was his preference for the times in European life when the great events of the people were told in legends, not just experienced in an external way. Today's man can no longer really understand these times of the Middle Ages. One must try to revive a little in oneself, before all observation, the soul that lived in people at that time, in order to feel what a person in Central Europe felt about the great deeds of world history, on which the weal and woe, the elevation and happiness and suffering of people depend.
281. The Art Of Recitation And Declamation: Speech for Christian Morgenstern I 24 Nov 1913, Stuttgart

But these are things that everyone must do for themselves, if we understand each other correctly, quite regardless of whether they agree with this or that point of view in our world view or not.
It is the word that gives our worldview some of its inner truth by saying: poets also come to us. And he will understand me best at this moment who, as deeply as it can be felt towards Christian Morgenstern, feels the word: Poets also come to us - especially with regard to the inner truth and the clarification of that which may be the core of our spiritual-scientific worldview.
And if I am to speak of a joy that one or the other of you personally wants to give me, then he can actually give it to me best by finding himself ready to penetrate with understanding into something of the kind that we would now like to give you some good samples of. These are the things that allow one to feel personally connected to our movement, and to step out of character for a moment, so to speak, and speak intimately and personally of one's joy, including the fact that among the greatest of these joys is that we have poets like Christian Morgenstern among us, in our midst.
281. The Art Of Recitation And Declamation: Speech for Christian Morgenstern II 31 Dec 1913, Leipzig

And allowing me to express my own spiritual situation in relation to these poems, I would like to say: We often hear the saying, which is certainly true: If you want to understand the poet, you must go to the poet's country! Today, in relation to the poems of our friend, I would like to turn this saying around in a certain way: If you want to understand a country properly, you must have an ear for its poets!
Only when we allow not only the more or less scientific content of the spiritual country to penetrate our hearts, but when we understand the poet in the spiritual country, only then have we prepared our soul for the spiritual country.
281. The Art Of Recitation And Declamation: Lienhard Celebration 03 Oct 1915, Dornach

After Friedrich Lienhard had reached a certain level of maturity, he immersed himself in what the more recent spiritual development has brought in so many different ways, and expressed in his own way how he began to study Goethe, Schiller, Herder, Jean Paul, Novalis in order to understand the other newer spiritual greats more closely, to understand them more deeply, to live with them more intimately.
When one can see that more and more the time is approaching in which a spiritual creator will show whether he is grasped by the spiritual calls that will sound in the future by the fact that he shows himself to be equal to a real real respect for the world's only, humanity's only form of Christ, if one may say this, then one may also say: Friedrich Lienhard has found his way to such forms of his poetry, thinking and creating that can stand understandingly in relation to humanity's only, the world's only form of Christ Jesus. Thus he belongs not only to the present, but, as one of the beginnings, to the future that we long for, that man must long for, who understands his time in the present.
We want to strengthen and invigorate our love for our friend, we want to strengthen and invigorate our understanding of his very unique way of thinking and being. Many of you, my dear friends, know him; he has been here and in other places among us.
281. The Art Of Recitation And Declamation: Lienhard Jordan Matinée 26 Nov 1915, Stuttgart

So I ask you, my dear Professor Lienhard, to accept this greeting, which comes from the faithful search for understanding of the impression of your life's work, your life's work that has incorporated so much meaningful and eternal from the development of humanity and entitles us to greet you for all that we now hopefully expect from you in this incarnation. Please accept these words as a promise that we would like to extend to you, not out of passing feelings, but out of a deeper understanding of your life's work to date. Take them as an expression of our desire for all that we may hope for to come from you.

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