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
lying heart gone
Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
passion thinking may
. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death
passion men driven
A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought....
beauty law might
Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.
hate intellectual worst
An intellectual hate is the worst.
personality style hot
Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
lying eye atheism
For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes?
sea fishing rivers
It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.
hate fate men
Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.
roots
Though leaves are many, the root is one.
writing needs bakers
When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.
teacher father book
My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.
men biodiversity
Man has created death.
passion what-matters fire
... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?