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
appreciation her-beauty
Time can but make her beauty over again.
expression literature mood
What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?
religious atheism way
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
broken-heart sacrifice long
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
sad lonely heart
The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.
eye roaring needles
All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye....
moving men bird
somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
flames tree half
A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew....
halloween lakes secret
I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool, And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake....
war heart law
I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away....
spiritual expression flames
A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.
powerful symbolism half
In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead at the top.
stars hate wind
I, too, await The hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?
running night men
Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath, Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day and night....