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
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Well, to see rightly is the whole of wisdom, whatever dream be with us.
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What shall I do for pretty girlsNow my old bawd is dead?
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The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the Bill was founded did not intend these things to happen, but in legislation intention is nothing, and the letter of the law everything, and no government has the
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Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
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Time drops in decay,Like a candle burnt out,And the mountains and woodsHave their day, have their day;
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Until the axle break That keeps the stars in their round, And hands hurl in the deep The banners of East and West, And the girdle of light is unbound, Your breast will not lie by the breast Of your beloved in sleep
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Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.
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Time's bitter flood will rise,Your beauty perish and be lostFor all eyes but these eyes.
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Those images that yetFresh images beget,That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.
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TOIL and grow rich, what's that but to lie with a foul witch and after, drained dry, to be brought to the chamber where lies one long sought with despair.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one;Through all the lying days of my youthI swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;Now I may wither into the truth.
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To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful.
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Where got I that truth? Out of a medium's mouth, Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.