“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
                                    
 
        
     
                            