Borchert was keen on poetry since his mid-teens and that continued with him to his last day. He used to write verse on his own, and the readers sensed famous poets in his poems such as, Shakespeare, Stefan George, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Rainer Maria Rilke was his role model, to the extent where he signed a work of his by “Wolff Maria Borchert” to express his respect to him. He was a follower of some poets and had seen them as his source of art fulfillment, for example, when he was to join the army, he wrote that he was hungry for art, listing Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Musset, Schiller and Hölderlin.