“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.”

Source: Przemine̜ło Z Wiatrem

Book VII : Modern Times, Ch. IX : The Final Consequences
Penguin Island (1908)

Source: Mysteries of Small Houses

Spellbound (November 1837)
Context: p>The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow,
And the storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.Clouds beyond clouds above me,
Wastes beyond wastes below;
But nothing drear can move me—
I will not, cannot go.</p

4:2
Epistle to the Smyrnaeans

Source: Walking (June 1862)

Source: Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan

Acceptance speech upon being awarded the Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are (1964), published in Newbery and Caldecott Medal Books, 1956-65, edited by Lee Kingman (1965)
Context: Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. That is obvious. But what is just as obvious — and what is too often overlooked — is the fact that from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.

Variant: He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a God.