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
anger getting-high certain
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
beauty beautiful men
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
wedding stars memories
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
thinking swag design
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
beautiful dream college
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
happiness believe years
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is
country drunk ale
I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.
wisdom art fate
Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk
life morning garden
yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.
doe isolated absolution
Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.
enemy emotion sweetheart
It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
children hands water
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
men history finding-yourself
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
dark fighting back-alleys
It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.