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
education filling irish-poet lighting
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
education filling lighting
Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.
dream image last midnight rhyme stroke talk
The last stroke of midnight dies.All day in the one chairFrom dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have rangedIn rambling talk with an image of air:Vague memories, nothing but memories.
love mansion proud sole woman
A woman can be proud and stiffWhen on love intent;But Love has pitched his mansion inThe place of excrement;For nothing can be sole or wholeThat has not been rent.
broken burning roof shudder
A shudder in the loins engenders thereThe broken wall, the burning roof and towerAnd Agamemnon dead.
kiss miss shall sigh
I sigh that kiss you,For I must ownThat I shall miss youWhen you have grown.
kiss miss shall sigh
I sigh that kiss you, For I must own That I shall miss you When you have grown.
childhood
The things that have been told us in our childhoodAre not so fragile.
body cruel forgot found happiness lovers mermaid picked pressed swimming
A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.
body cruel found lovers mermaid swimming
A mermaid found a swimming lad,Picked him for her own,Pressed her body to his body,Laughed; and plunging downForgot in cruel happinessThat even lovers drown.
others ourselves poetry quarrels
Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.
city holy sailed seas therefore
And therefore I have sailed the seas and comeTo the holy city of Byzantium.
great hate ireland
Out of Ireland have we come. Great hatred, little room, Maimed us at the start.
certainly child comfort desire destroyed drink known men seen wife
I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots