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
heart poetry knaves
O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.
jesus flower passion
When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay; Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side, The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream....
memories soul mind
All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.
work frustration night
In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.
heart battle littles
Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart.
writing men land
No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.
goodbye children heart
To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and wisdom in your heart, This is the best of life; when we are young We long to tread a way none trod before, But find the excellent old way through love And through the care of children to the hour Forbidding Fate and Time and Change goodbye.
men class cities
In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities; people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, perforce. Every man is himself a class.
dream artist despair
What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?
good-luck long house
The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.
thinking stones tongue
Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
nature heart moon
Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will....
hours poor pleasure
The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.
fashion passion men
It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.