Noun
(uncountable) An oral art form, usually consisting of performance poetry, although sometimes overlapping with storytelling or rap.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see spoken, word.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgI love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words - the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture. Martha Graham
While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. Kingman Brewster, Jr.
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded. Lascelles Abercrombie
A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it. Russian Proverb
A spoken word is like a sparrow that once has flown away, cannot be caught again. Russian Proverb
The spoken word sometimes loses what silence has won. Spanish Proverb