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 motivational graduation
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
buckets hills companion
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
love life dream
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
inspirational motivational positive
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
life world chaos
There is another world, but it is in this one.
running wine doors
What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at the door! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread taste sour.
life ambition islands
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.
two poetry lovely
One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.
men vision world
Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
truth men knows
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
eye imagination mind
The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.
stars twilight heart
I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee; And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky, Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.
brilliant youth bitter
Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.
men gone praying
For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.