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
children hands water
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
lonely cheer loneliness
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
dream imagination vision
I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
children men wife
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
party character fighting
Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
life morning garden
yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.
happiness believe years
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is
imagination logic reason
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
wedding stars memories
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
drinking food humor
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
life disappointment long
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
hatred intellectual social-justice
An intellectual hatred is the worst.
beautiful dream college
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
life poetry
What can be explained is not poetry.