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A single imagination, unknown to the world, can change the minds of multitudes: the solitary or captive, by intensity of imagination and feeling, affects myriads and acts through many men and speaks through many voices; as Yeats put it, a change in men's minds may have begun with some woman treading in the wine-press or some shepherd boy.
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W. B. Yeats, Ideas of Good and Evil | that it was not some woman treading in the wine-press who began that subtle change in men’s minds, or that the passion did not begin in the mind of some shepherd boy, lighting up his eyes for a moment before it ran upon its way
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The solitary or captive can, by intensity of imagination and feeling, affect myriads so that he can act through many men and speak through many voices