He was a poet, pilgrim, friend and teacher, besides controversial and uncomfortable, decisive for the German intelligentsia in the first half of the twentieth century character. He sought companions and disciples whom win for poetry, for himself, and he taught and reformed by the power and magic of the word. Almost in response to the crisis of language that had been proclaimed in the late nineteenth century, George believed in the transforming power of isolated and beauty in all its forms of representation poem, including its editorial policy.

His artistic will led him to reject everything that is not capable of becoming art, it was unable to merge life and work, and guided him in his quest for silence -imprescindible enigmatic atmosphere for the creation and preservation of the sacred-where traditional morality and bourgeois order had no place. His texts, if not key to understanding culture in German, continue to surprise both its formal and thematic richness and its beauty.