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 "title": "Unfolded Out of the Folds",
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 "poet": "Walt Whitman",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Leaves of Grass",
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 "container": "Autumn Rivulets",
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  "year": 1856,
  "venue": "Leaves of Grass (Brooklyn, 1856)",
  "note": "Located in this edition by matching this text's lines against the Whitman Archive transcription of the 1856 Fowler & Wells edition (ppp.00237). The corpus text follows the 1891–92 arrangement, by which the poem had been revised. First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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   "https://archive.org/details/leavesgrass03whitgoog"
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "Unfolded out of the folds of the woman man comes unfolded, and is always to come unfolded,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unfolded only out of the superbest woman of the earth is to come the superbest man of the earth,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unfolded out of the friendliest woman is to come the friendliest man,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unfolded only out of the perfect body of a woman can a man be form’d of perfect body,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unfolded only out of the inimitable poems of woman can come the poems of man, (only thence have my poems come;)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unfolded out of the strong and arrogant woman I love, only thence can appear the strong and arrogant man I love,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unfolded by brawny embraces from the well-muscled woman I love, only thence come the brawny embraces of the man,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unfolded out of the folds of the woman’s brain come all the folds of the man’s brain, duly obedient,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unfolded out of the justice of the woman all justice is unfolded,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Unfolded out of the sympathy of the woman is all sympathy;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "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;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "First the man is shaped in the woman, he can then be shaped in himself.",
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