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
environmental resurrection
Everything in nature is resurrection.
love
Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.
dream hair made
What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?
dream
Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.
song thinking lust
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?
life eye cutting
On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
life eye gay
Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.
life men frogs
I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
life believe writing
The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance - the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
life imagination temptation
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.
secret difficult known
Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
falling-apart anarchy things-fall-apart-important
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
unity hammers
Hammer your thoughts into unity.
life men play
Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.