Well, then poetry is not literature.
Sure in the context that you mean it’s an oral tradition.
No, the argument is even dumber than that. The person who writes a poem hasn't created any literature.
The person who hears that poem in circulation and records it in his notes has created literature; an anthology is literature but an original work isn't.
If it’s not written down, then that’s true.
Once someone writes it down, it is.