“I have not learned how often I
Can win, can love, but choose to die.”
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W.D. Snodgrass 1
Poet 1926–2009Related quotes
“Who can be forced has not learned how to die.”
Cogi qui potest nescit mori.
Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), line 426; (Megara).
Alternate translation: Who can be compelled does not know how to die.
Tragedies
“I can choose. I have to choose.”
We the People interview (1996)
Context: I can choose. I have to choose. I have to make my mind up whom I will take into my arms, to whom I will lose myself, whom I will treat as that vis-a-vis, that face into which I look, which I lovingly touch with my fingering gaze, from whom I accept being who I am as a gift.
I Don't Know.
Song lyrics, Blizzard of Ozz (1980)
“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
“Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die.”
“because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be.”
“How many different deaths I can die?”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
4th February 1826) The Past (under the pen name Iole
The London Literary Gazette, 1826