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
beauty kissing white
And when you sigh from kiss to kiss I hear white Beauty sighing, too, For hours when all must fade like dew....
life thoughtful reality
man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality....
life wisdom moon
For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, A property of the living; but no stain Can come upon the visage of the moon When it has looked in glory from a cloud.
broken-heart sacrifice long
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
dream moving light
Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.
god time oxen
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
lines pavement doe
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
death years mind
I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
truth lying ideas
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
religious atheism way
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
beings clearer gather life minds moment perhaps
we can make our minds so still like water. That beings gather about us to see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even with a fiercer life because of silence.
people problem
The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.
call close kindred
When two close kindred meetWhat better than call a dance?