Sendak

by Lisa Congdon, Project 365

Where the Wild Things Are

"And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely
and wanted to be where someone loved
him best of all."

"And the wild things roared their terrible roars
and gnashed their terrible teeth
and rolled their terrible eyes
and showed their terrible claws."

Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak

Childhood II

“. . .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.” 

Maurice Sendak

Childhood I

“I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You're going to trip over that for a good part of your life.”

Maurice Sendak