" If I could
have my life over again, I would devote it not
to art or literature, but to language. Life
itself may hit one hard, but always, always one
can take sanctuary in language. Language is
as much an art and as sure a refuge as paint¬
ing or music or literature. It reflects and
interprets and makes bearable life; only
it is a wider, because more subconscious,
life. "

― Jane Ellen Harrison , Reminiscences of a Student's Life