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> No, the argument is even dumber than that. The person who writes a poem hasn't created any literature. Sure they have, by virtue of writing it down. It becomes literature when it hits the paper (or computer screen, as it were). (Unless you mean to imply that formulating an original poem in your mind counts as "writing", in which case I guess we illustrate the overarching point of value in shared symbols and languag…
> Unless you mean to imply that formulating an original poem in your mind counts as "writing" You're close. I'm making the point that, in modern English, no other verb is available for the act of creating a poem. Here's a quote from the fantasy novel The Way of Kings that always appealed to me: >> "Many of our nuatoma -- this thing, it is the same as your lighteyes, only their eyes are not light--" >> "How can you be…
You literally used another perfectly acceptable verb in modern English besides “writing” for the act of creating a poem in the very sentence making this claim, which somewhat undermines the claim.