" I am where I was:
I walk behind the murmur,
footsteps within me, heard with my eyes,
the murmur is in the mind, I am my footsteps,
I hear the voices that I think,
the voices that think me as as I think them.
I am the shadow my words cast.


from "Draft of Shadows "

― Octavio Paz , The Collected Poems, 1957-1987