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
inspirational happiness health
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
men fancy myth
I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.
wisdom butterfly optimism
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey....
life tombstone eye
Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by
years unity lovers
All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.
taste reason feels
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
imagination logic reason
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
soul opinion empty
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
lonely peace fall
Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest....
hurt pain kindness
The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away
life heart world
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
beautiful dream retirement
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
joy overcoming triumph
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
art longing creation
only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.