 As a teenager, he enrolled in the local high school, where he came in contact with other young Slovene literates, such as Ivan Cankar, Dragotin Kette, and Oton Župančič, who experimented in new trends of European poetry, in particular Slovene "Moderna", a national literary trend that combined Naturalism, Impressionism, Decadence and Symbolist ideas.He was a gifted student, shy, but also very self-confident.He started writing poetry at a very young age and soon achieved a very high level of quality.