That sounds like what happens with poets and collected culture now--a poet looking to create a poem searches their memory for experience, chooses a form, and af

That sounds like what happens with poets and collected culture now--a poet looking to create a poem searches their memory for experience, chooses a form, and after some revisions produces a work. That work is then shopped around, sometimes in formal ways like a publisher, or informal through friends, and through time civilization filters and canonized certain poems, forever adding to, updating, and removing works from the list. It seems possible, though certainly not easy, to mechanize some or all of that.