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
faces spit
I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me
spiritual expression flames
A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.
faces knows
What do we know but that we face one another in this place?
blessed self common
The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all
holiday gay wind
Come let us mock at the good That fancied goodness might be gay, And sick of solitude Might proclaim a holiday: Wind shrieked and where are they?
halloween lakes secret
I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool, And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake....
flames tree half
A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew....
death sex two
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
world way triumph
The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.
truth war thinking
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
journey men thinking
A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.
happiness laughter joy
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
appreciation her-beauty
Time can but make her beauty over again.
sad lonely heart
The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.