That does not keep me from having a terrible need of shall I say the word religion.

Then I go outat night to paint the stars. Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother
The town does not exist
except where one black-haired tree slips
up like a drowned woman into the hot sky.
The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die.
It moves. They are all alive.
Even the moon bulges in its orange irons
to push children, like a god, from its eye.
The old unseen serpent swallows up the stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die:
into that rushing beast of the night,
sucked up by that great dragon, to split
from my life with no flag,
no belly,
no cry.
-ANNE SEXTON

The Ephigraph
That does not keep me from having a terrible need of shall I say the word religion. Then I go out
at night to paint the stars. Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother
See how Vincent badly want to recieve the gift of faith. Why? To believe on something. When he was
alive and breathing , no one bats an eye to his paintings. (but i could have told you vincent, this world
was never meant for one as beautiful as you) And when Vincent died everyone cares.
Why did Anne Sexton included this epigraph? And wrote a poem inspired by "Starry night" painting.
Simply because she wanna die, comitting suicide. All her dissapointments nor how she suffered for
her sanity. All her long battle against deppression and mania. She's going to end her life with such
class or something like unforgettable , quick pain (that you will not almost have the time to feel it) .

On October 4, 1974, Sexton had lunch with Kumin to revise galleys for Sexton's
manuscript of The Awful Rowing Toward God, scheduled for publication in March
1975 (Middlebrook 396). On returning home she put on her mother's old fur coat,
removed all her rings, poured herself a glass of vodka, locked herself in her
garage, and started the engine of her car, committing suicide by carbon monoxide
poisoning.
no belly, no cry.