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
none tread
When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before
truly
Really and truly -- I've nothing to wear.
begins friends-or-friendship glory mans
Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
dried listen soon
I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder, as listen to your thoughts.
hard learning man married
It is a hard thing to be married to a man of learning that must always be having arguments.
crooked love nobody wise
O love is the crooked thing,There is nobody wise enoughTo find out all that is in it.
man
A man who does not exist,A man who is but a dream.
folly kindred man proud woman
The folly that man doesOr must suffer, if he woosA proud woman not kindred of his soul.
fixed knowing star
I have no question:It is enough, I know what fixed the stationOf star and cloud.And knowing all, I cry. . . .
joy periods sustained temporary
he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.'
compelled feels imagine lost melancholy passing souls streets walk
This melancholy London- I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
conscience might vanity
Things said or done long years ago,Or things I did not do or sayBut thought that I might say or do,Weigh me down, and not a dayBut something is recalled,My conscience or my vanity appalled.
conscience might vanity weigh
Things said or done long years ago, Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.
awaits dread dying hope hoping man nor
Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal;A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all.