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
falling-apart anarchy things-fall-apart-important
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
keys uncertainty
We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty...
imagination
The living can assist the imagination of the dead...
theme
What can I but enumerate old themes?
beauty beautiful kindness
For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend. r
imagination rhetoric
rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.
dance two kindred
When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.
rogues fine worst
O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.
imagination doe losing
Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?
learning winter blow
O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.
healing bones filled
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
uncles son aunt
I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent?
wise running stars
Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon..
ideas breakfast poet
Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.