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Poetry is less bound by time and circumstance than any other of the arts; good poetry comes almost directly from a man’s mind, and senses and blood-stream, and no one can predict the man.
Robinson Jeffers
Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return! ++++
Herman Melville++++
Moby Dick
'What we ask of writers is that they guarantee the survival of what we call human, in a world where everything appears inhuman.'
Italo Calvino
“… Fall down seven times, get up eight.” … Japanese proverb
Plate 68: Mount Rainier and Whidbey Island. Engraving by John M. Stanley, 1854. (Click to enlarge). From: University of Washington Library Archives #NA4173.
West Pacific Review 
Fun! I’m a Whidbey-Islander, and just came across your post. Beautiful etching.
Thanks for stopping by neighbor. I haven’t quite figured out where exactly this point is on the island? The tiny island just beyond the boat is strange. Much changes in 160 years.