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
birds country dying trees
That is no country for old men. The youngIn one another's arms, birds in the trees --Those dying generations -- at their song.
rest sailed swift
Swift has sailed into his rest;Savage indignation thereCannot lacerate his breast.
people problem
The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.
none tread
When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before
beloved break deep east girdle hands keeps lie light sleep stars until
Until the axle break That keeps the stars in their round, And hands hurl in the deep The banners of East and West, And the girdle of light is unbound, Your breast will not lie by the breast Of your beloved in sleep
hard learning man married
It is a hard thing to be married to a man of learning that must always be having arguments.
again beggar health sea soul time
Time to put off the world and go somewhereAnd find my health again in the sea air,"Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,"And make my soul before my pate is bare.
beauty bitter eyes flood perish
Time's bitter flood will rise,Your beauty perish and be lostFor all eyes but these eyes.
beauty bitter eyes flood lost perish
Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.
images
Those images that yetFresh images beget,That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.
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To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful.
crowns dark forest lay night truth
Where got I that truth? Out of a medium's mouth, Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh
beauty decay endless joy time
Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
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We . . . are no petty people. We are of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.