“Fragments reveals the sad, sensitive, savvy woman behind the obvious image. Future biographers will have to weigh their assumptions with more care.”
Marilyn’s Own Words, in Fragments
“I am tired. I am searching for a way to play this role. My whole life has always depressed me. How can I play such a gay girl, young and full of hope?”
A quote from Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe
Life: A Poetic Fragment
“Life-
I am of both your directions
Existing more with the cold frost
Strong as a cobweb in the wind
Hanging downward the most
Somehow remaining
those beaded rays have the colours
I’ve seen in paintings-ah life
they have cheated youthinner than a cobweb’s thread
sheerer than any-but it did attach itself
and held fast in strong winds
and singed by the leaping hot fires
life-of which at singular times
I am both of your directions-
somehow I remain hanging downward the most
as both of your directions pull me”– Marilyn Monroe