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
accidents barely case choose life man reason simple understand woman
I think a man and a woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life with all its accidents is barely enough for a man and a woman to understand each other; and in this case to understand is to love.
ambitious among choose dizzy flowering high life rains rich shape surely though until whatever
Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns,Amid the rustle of his planted hills,Life overflows without ambitious pains;And rains down life until the basin spills,And mounts more dizzy high the more it rainsAs though to choose whatever shape it wills. . . .
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.
blind content life man
I am content to live it all againAnd yet again, if it be life to pitchInto the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch,A blind man battering blind men.
brought cannot century civilization despite hoped illusion life manifold peace raging
Civilization is hoped together, brought under a rule, under the semblance of peace by manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, and he, despite his terror, cannot cease, ravening through century after century ravening, raging and uprooting, that
inspirational life dance
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
life poetry
What can be explained is not poetry.
inspirational life dream
In dreams begins responsibility.
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.
life disappointment long
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
life tombstone eye
Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by
life heart world
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
inspirational life friendship
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
love life dream
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.