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gptkbp:instance_of
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gptkb:Author
gptkb:poet
gptkb:Physician
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gptkbp:associated_act
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gptkb:Objectivist_movement
Imagist movement
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gptkbp:associated_with
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gptkb:Objectivism
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gptkbp:awards
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gptkb:Pulitzer_Prize_for_Poetry
gptkb:National_Book_Award
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gptkbp:birth_date
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1883-09-17
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gptkbp:born
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September 17, 1883
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gptkbp:born_in
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gptkb:Rutherford,_New_Jersey
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gptkbp:burial_place
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gptkb:Riverside_Cemetery
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gptkbp:children
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gptkb:William_Eric_Williams
gptkb:William_Carlos_Williams_Jr.
gptkb:Mary_Williams
Elizabeth Williams
Margaret Williams
Janet Williams
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gptkbp:contribution
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Explored the relationship between art and life.
Emphasized the importance of place in poetry.
Helped shape modern American poetry.
Influenced the Beat Generation.
Pioneered the use of the American vernacular.
Promoted the use of everyday speech in poetry.
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gptkbp:death_date
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1963-03-04
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gptkbp:died
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March 4, 1963
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gptkbp:education
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gptkb:University_of_Pennsylvania
gptkb:New_York_University
gptkb:New_York_Medical_College
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gptkbp:famous_for
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Innovative style
Imagist poetry
Use of everyday language
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gptkbp:famous_quote
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" I am a poet and I am a doctor."
" No ideas but in things."
" The only thing that can save us is the poem."
" The poem is a little machine made of words."
" The poet is a doctor of the soul."
" To be a poet is to be a doctor of the soul."
" I have written some poems that are not about the things I have seen."
" It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."
" A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words."
" I have written some poems that are not about anything."
" What is more important than the poem is the experience of writing it."
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gptkbp:field
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Modernist poetry
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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William Carlos Williams
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:Frank_O'_Hara
gptkb:Robert_Creeley
gptkb:John_Ashbery
gptkb:Langston_Hughes
gptkb:Allen_Ginsberg
gptkb:Charles_Olson
gptkb:Lorine_Niedecker
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gptkbp:influenced_by
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gptkb:Imagism
gptkb:Ezra_Pound
gptkb:Marianne_Moore
gptkb:Modernism
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gptkbp:known_for
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free verse
American vernacular
local color
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gptkbp:literary_movement
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gptkb:Imagism
gptkb:Objectivism
gptkb:American_Modernism
gptkb:Modernism
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gptkbp:movement
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gptkb:Imagism
gptkb:Modernism
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gptkbp:nationality
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gptkb:American
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gptkbp:notable_work
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gptkb:The_Collected_Stories_of_William_Carlos_Williams
gptkb:The_Red_Wheelbarrow
gptkb:Paterson
Spring and All
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gptkbp:occupation
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gptkb:playwright
gptkb:essayist
gptkb:poet
gptkb:Novelist
gptkb:Physician
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gptkbp:place_of_birth
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gptkb:Rutherford,_New_Jersey
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gptkbp:place_of_death
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gptkb:Paterson,_New_Jersey
gptkb:Rutherford,_New_Jersey
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gptkbp:profession
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gptkb:Doctor
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gptkbp:related_to
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gptkb:cultural_identity
gptkb:Cultural_impact
gptkb:Modernist_literature
gptkb:poetry
gptkb:storytelling
American literature
Art and literature
Literary criticism
Literary style
Artistic expression
Artistic innovation
American modernism
Cultural commentary
Literary tradition
Literary legacy
Medical profession
Cultural criticism
Poetic innovation
Literary influence
20th-century poetry
New Jersey culture
Poetic exploration
Poetic movement
Poetic technique
Poetic voice
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gptkbp:spouse
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Flora Williams
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gptkbp:style
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Free verse
Imagist poetry
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gptkbp:theme
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gptkb:Nature
American life
Urban experience
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gptkbp:written_in
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gptkb:Spanish
English
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:H._D._(Hilda_Doolittle)
gptkb:John_Berryman
gptkb:Norman_Maclean
gptkb:T._S._Eliot
gptkb:Marianne_Moore
gptkb:Amanda_Gorman
gptkb:Walt_Whitman
gptkb:John_Simon_Guggenheim_Memorial_Foundation_Fellowship
gptkb:Lorine_Niedecker
gptkb:Gertrude_Stein
gptkb:New_Jersey_Hall_of_Fame
gptkb:Columbia_University_College_of_Physicians_and_Surgeons
gptkb:Carl_Sandburg
gptkb:Linda_Pastan
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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4
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