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
land done sun
I had this thought a while ago, "My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind bitter land." And I grew weary of the sun
said solomon comprehension
Who understood Whatever has been said, sighed, sung, Howled, miau-d, barked, brayed, belled, yelled, cried, crowed ...
sleep cat responsibility
A speckled cat and a tame hare Eat at my hearthstone And sleep there; And both look up to me alone For learning and defence As I look up to Providence.
hands tests extravagance
Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.
love life dream
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
happiness laughter joy
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
hate fighting fate
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
air soul london
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
death sex two
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
eye judging
Eyes spiritualised by death can judge, I cannot, but I am not content.
fall compassion wind
Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease....
beautiful women school
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
drunk problem sober
The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober.
mother heart hatred
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.