Noli beluam in tantam magnitudinem producere ut eam cibare non possis [Don't build your monster so big that you cannot feed him]

They didn't tame the monster. All they did is feed it a little.

He wasn't made of flesh and bone, or starlight.
He was made of darkness.

I can see every monster as they come in.

It was a monster,

Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster."

Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart.