A.E. Housman (1859–1936) English classical scholar and poet
"Introductory Lecture" delivered on October 3, 1892 at University College, London.
“The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.”
— Gaston Bachelard, book The Poetics of Space
La poétique de l'espace (The Poetics of Space) (1958)
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