Unfolded Out of the Folds by Walt Whitman
b'Whitman read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\n Unfolded Out of the Folds \\nby Walt Whitman (1819 \\u2013 1892)\\n\\n \\nUnfolded out of the folds of the woman, man comes unfolded, and is always to come unfolded;\\nUnfolded only out of the superbest woman of the earth, is to come the superbest man of the earth; \\nUnfolded out of the friendliest woman, is to come the friendliest man; \\nUnfolded only out of the perfect body of a woman, can a man be form\\u2019d of perfect body; \\nUnfolded only out of the inimitable poem of the woman, can come the poems of man\\u2014(only thence have my poems come; ) \\nUnfolded out of the strong and arrogant woman I love, only thence can appear the strong and arrogant man I love; \\nUnfolded by brawny embraces from the well-muscled woman I love, only thence come the brawny embraces of the man; \\nUnfolded out of the folds of the woman\\u2019s brain, come all the folds of the man\\u2019s brain, duly obedient; \\nUnfolded out of the justice of the woman, all justice is unfolded; \\nUnfolded out of the sympathy of the woman is all sympathy:\\nA man is a great thing upon the earth, and through eternity \\u2014 but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman,\\nFirst the man is shaped in the woman, he can then be shaped in himself.'