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
chose last romantics sanctity
We were the last romantics -- chose for themeTraditional sanctity and loveliness.
dream image last midnight rhyme stroke talk
The last stroke of midnight dies.All day in the one chairFrom dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have rangedIn rambling talk with an image of air:Vague memories, nothing but memories.
bethlehem born hour last rough round toward
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last slouches toward Bethlehem to be born
driven hate hatred last learns radical recovers soul sweet
Considering that, all hatred driven hence,The soul recovers radical innocenceAnd learns at last that it is self-delighting,Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will.
cover last running sand shall underneath
Speak, speak, for underneath the cover thereThe sand is running from the upper glass,And when the last grain's through, I shall be lost.
cover last running sand shall underneath
Speak, speak, for underneath the cover there The sand is running from the upper glass, And when the last grain's through, I shall be lost.
lasts beast hours
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
sleep twenties lasts
Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
cent cost five heard hundred jewelry mean moment ten wide worth
But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare,When at the same moment she had on a dressWhich cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less,And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess,That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!
berry god
Doubtless God could have made a better berry (than the strawberry), but doubtless God never did
truly
Really and truly -- I've nothing to wear.
art fighting men
The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
And say my glory was I had such friends.
dreams irish-poet
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.