Characteristics Quote by Harold Innis

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

Writing wasn't just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and over again…

— Amanda Gorman

On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like…

— Pablo Neruda

It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even the most…

— Mary Oliver

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

— Isabel Allende

The idea of writing, to me, was, from the beginning, was writing something which was a little different from the ordinary exchange of speech.…

— W. S. Merwin

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

— James Fenton

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

— William McIlvanney

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

— Fay Weldon

Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and…

— Harold Innis

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

— Paulo Coelho

“...because writing is fundamentally an act of reaching out from self to other. It is a reminder that we are not alone in the…

— Alicia Rasley