when Einstein discovered the general theory of
relativity, he discovered it from within. There was no data on
the expansion of the universe or anything else. He said he just
went into his own visceral movements a strange way of
thinking about creativity and he paid attention to what was
going on within, and he gave birth to the gravitational
equations we use now. This is what I think Whitman did. He
penetrated the depth of his own bodily reality and had this
intuition about stars. And we've now discovered the empirical
details about this. I just love that everybody comes out of
the stars.