William Butler
William Butler
Multi-instrumentalist for the band Arcade Fire who plays bass, synth, guitar, and percussion. He has also worked on movie soundtracks, like the one for Her.
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth6 October 1982
folly kindred man proud woman
The folly that man doesOr must suffer, if he woosA proud woman not kindred of his soul.
body cruel found lovers mermaid swimming
A mermaid found a swimming lad,Picked him for her own,Pressed her body to his body,Laughed; and plunging downForgot in cruel happinessThat even lovers drown.
body cruel forgot found happiness lovers mermaid picked pressed swimming
A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.
carpet cough man neighbour people shuffle walk wear
All shuffle there; all cough in ink;All wear the carpet with their shoes;All think what other people think;All know the man their neighbour knows,Lord, what would they sayDid their Catullus walk that way?
dance-and-dancing dancing drink sober stay
Come swish around, my pretty punk,And keep me dancing stillThat I may stay a sober manAlthough I drink my fill.
awhile nod passed polite words
I have passed with a nod of the headOr polite meaningless words,Or have lingered awhile and saidPolite meaningless words. . . .
bringing entering faculty human imagination lose losing nature power revealed seemingly sent spirit symbol touches
In Imagination only we find a Human Faculty that touches nature at one side, and spirit on the other. Imagination may be described as that which is sent bringing spirit to nature, entering into nature, and seemingly losing its spirit, that nature being revealed as symbol may lose the power to delude.
faith men doubt
We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.
kissing dancing pay
And learn that the best thing is To change my loves while dancing And pay but a kiss for a kiss.
desire might unbreakable
The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.
beauty wings dread
He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer.
violence half common
The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.
dog cat boys
Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.
sweet hard-work kitchen
A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set...