Unfolding/Enfolding
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November 16, 2020From Walt Whitman.
| UNFOLDED out of the folds of the woman, man comes unfolded, and is always to come unfolded; | |
| Unfolded only out of the superbest woman of the earth, is to come the superbest man of the earth; | |
| Unfolded out of the friendliest woman, is to come the friendliest man; | |
| Unfolded only out of the perfect body of a woman, can a man be form’d of perfect body; | |
| Unfolded only out of the inimitable poem of the woman, can come the poems of man—(only thence have my poems come;) | 5 |
| Unfolded out of the strong and arrogant woman I love, only thence can appear the strong and arrogant man I love; | |
| Unfolded by brawny embraces from the well-muscled woman I love, only thence come the brawny embraces of the man; | |
| Unfolded out of the folds of the woman’s brain, come all the folds of the man’s brain, duly obedient; | |
| Unfolded out of the justice of the woman, all justice is unfolded; | |
| Unfolded out of the sympathy of the woman is all sympathy: | 10 |
| A man is a great thing upon the earth, and through eternity—but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman, | |
| First the man is shaped in the woman, he can then be shaped in himself. |
