1. ۱UNFOLDED out of the folds of the woman, man comes unfolded, and is always to
2. ۲ come unfolded;
3. ۳Unfolded only out of the superbest woman of the earth, is to come the superbest
4. ۴ man of the earth;
5. ۵Unfolded out of the friendliest woman, is to come the friendliest man;
6. ۶Unfolded only out of the perfect body of a woman, can a man be form’d of
7. ۷ perfect body;
8. ۸Unfolded only out of the inimitable poem of the woman, can come the poems of
9. ۹ man—(only thence have my poems come;)
10. ۱۰Unfolded out of the strong and arrogant woman I love, only thence can appear the
11. ۱۱ strong and arrogant man I love;
12. ۱۲Unfolded by brawny embraces from the well-muscled woman I love, only thence come
13. ۱۳ the brawny embraces of the man;
14. ۱۴Unfolded out of the folds of the woman’s brain, come all the folds of the
15. ۱۵ man’s brain, duly obedient;
16. ۱۶Unfolded out of the justice of the woman, all justice is unfolded;
17. ۱۷Unfolded out of the sympathy of the woman is all sympathy:
18. ۱۸A man is a great thing upon the earth, and through eternity—but every jot
19. ۱۹ of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman,
20. ۲۰First the man is shaped in the woman, he can then be shaped in himself.