Well, maybe you should ponder the poet's meaning a bit longer: the more interesting people [i.e those forming the society he would like to be in] were, in his estimation, not going to Heaven, rather the opposite. At least that's how his meaning looks to me. And I would not call this interpretation "rather stupid".
Hell is for people who reject creativity--- who reject, in fact, the source of all Creation. One of the torments there is sure to be: dying perpetually of boredom.