
Walt Whitman
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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The Centre Figure of All
He's talking about a mystic evolution in which we develop spiritually. So when he said, what waits intrinsically in yourself is this specialness that you've hidden away with all those s and fs - listen to this. This first bit is about religious painting. Painters have painted their swarming groups and the centre figure of all, from the head of the centre figure, spreading a nimbus of gold colored light. But i paint myriads of heads, but paint no head without its nimbu of gold coloured light from my hand. From the brain of every man and woman, it streams effulgently flowing forever. And those fs at the end sound like flowing, eff
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