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
life men giving
Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.
life men race
Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it all. Whether man die in his bed Or the rifle knocks him dead
life change lying
And if joy were not on the earth, There were an end of change and birth, And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die, And in some gloomy barrow lie Folded like a frozen fly....
eye imagination mind
The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.
world fairy empty-souls
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
life art dirty
There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.
eye kissing laughing
Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away.
girl death pretty-girl
What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead?
looks look-up
Everything we look upon is blest.
poetry limits poet
If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.
heaven tragedy scene
Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.
environmental resurrection
Everything in nature is resurrection.
truth wall men
Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.
mystery uncontrollable unsatisfied
The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.