7 Stirring Poems From Marilyn Monroe's Never Before Seen Journals

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7 Stirring Poems From Marilyn Monroe's Never Before Seen Journals

The thoughtful journals were finally published, revealing a deeper side to Marilyn that many people never got the chance to experience.

Life —
I am of both of your directions.

— Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

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Only parts of us will ever
touch parts of others

— Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

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I am many stories.

— Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

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To have your heart is
the only completely happy proud possession that has ever belonged to me.

— Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

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The truth can only be recalled, never invented.

— Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

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I guess I have always been
deeply terrified to really be someone’s
wife
since I know from life
one cannot love another,
ever, really.

— Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

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Feel what I feel
within myself —
that is trying to
become aware of it.

— Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

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