Love is never easy and relationships are complicated. But in the end, it’s how we treat each other that dictates how strong our love ultimately becomes.
Robert Lowell was born in 1917 into one of Boston’s oldest and most prominent families. He attended Harvard College for two years before transferring to Kenyon College, where he studied poetry under John Crowe Ransom and received an undergraduate degree in 1940. He took graduate courses at Louisiana State University where he studied with Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks. His first and second books, Land of Unlikeness (1944) and Lord Weary’s Castle (for which he received a Pulitzer Prize in 1946, at the age of thirty),
We all like to feel safe and comfortable in our lives. But sometime the best thing for us is to break away from that safety and comfort so we can really live.
