The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. - James Arthur Baldwin. View more images...

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. - James Arthur Baldwin. View more images...

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. - James Arthur Baldwin. View more images...

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. - James Arthur Baldwin. View more images...

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance. - James Arthur Baldwin. View more images...

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. - James Arthur Baldwin. View more images...

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities. - James Arthur Baldwin. View more images...

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. - James Arthur Baldwin. View more images...