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
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.
english men mine send
Did that play of mine send outCertain men the English shot?
bear burden god great men might pray
I bear a burden that might well tryMen that do all by rule,And what can IThat am a wandering-witted foolBut pray to God that He easeMy great responsibilities?
certainly child comfort desire destroyed drink known men seen wife
I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots
grown men poor rich running
Poor men have grown to be rich men,And rich men grown to be poor again,And I am running to Paradise.
improve men
For men improve with the years;And yet, and yet,Is this my dream, or the truth?
love men bending-down
One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
faith men doubt
We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.
boys men optimism
Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy....
men ephemeral tablets
As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said. Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind....
art men meditation
A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
stars men soul
The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!
drinking men drunk
A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.
men and-love
Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?