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
love unique intellectual
Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
love world melancholy
While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.
blessed laughing looks
When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.
butterfly eye garden
This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.
blood discipline tolerance
Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.
family gratitude children
No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
moon men sky
The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry.
lonely loneliness world
And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
children heart broken
All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.
heart deep-heart core
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
wine elements drink
His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.
farewell weight weary
Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.
father eye angel
The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.
growing-up pain men
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.