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
art men progress
How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?
men doe
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
journey men thinking
A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.
filling
Education is not filling
horse racing mind
There where the course is, Delight makes all of the one mind, The riders upon the galloping horses, The crowd that closes in behind....
world way triumph
The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.
fire filling lighting
Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.
beautiful father land
My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd. "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out, "Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.
memories believe i-believe
I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
men loses
For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.
enemy innocence
The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.
loyalty pride soldier
The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain, The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord, Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred, Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored; Great nations blossom above, A slave bows down to a slave.
fall gay rebirth
All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.
brother struggle cities
Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend.