Some poets want to write immortal poems Well, do your current peers think your poems could have been immortal hundred years later? No Have you cloned another few of you and stored them away so you could make another few life attempts to write immortal ones? No Then you got to die first and hope another world speaks immortal language so your poems could surprisingly become immortal What if I find out my poems could not be translated and understood by another world after I die Then your poems might abandon you Any other way without cloning or death Perhaps, if you make a device ro find a way traveling much faster than light speed then you could find out before you make your commitment Or every poem could become immortal once on one else in future writes poem any more