1. We want to sing the love of sleep, the quality of idleness and repose.

2. The essential elements of our “poetry” will be quietude, serenity and calm.

3. Literature has neglected pensive immobility, the ecstasy of boredom. We want to RESIST movements of aggression, feverish sleeplessness, the double march, the perilous leap, the slap and the blow with the fist.

4. We sigh! The splendour of the world has been deprived of a natural beauty: the beauty of rest. We are kept awake by racing automobiles... a roaring motor cars.

5. We want to say STOP to the man at the wheel, the hurried axis of which crosses the earth, … We salute delay.

6. The poet must spend himself with warmth, simplicity and prudence to increase the tranquil fervour of the primordial elements.

7. Beauty exists only in tranquillity. There is no need for masterpieces that have an aggressive character. Poetry must be a peaceful defence of the forces of the unknown, before which we should bow.

8. We are on the extreme promontory of a new era! Time and Space hurried yesterday. Today we return to the comfort of invigorating slumber.

9. We want to glorify stillness, the only cure for the world - embrace the ameliorating gesture of the anarchic nap, the beautiful dreams which inspire and intrigue.

10. We want to ‘waste’ time in museums and libraries, revisit morality and utilitarian vision.

11. We will NOT sing of the crowds devout to work, the polyphonic surf of soul-drenched flock in modern capitals: the nocturnal vibration of the workshops, the gluttonous railway stations devouring smoking serpents, the gliding flight of aeroplanes whose propeller sounds like the flapping of a flag and the applause of enthusiastic crowds. NO! We will praise and admire silence, softness of bird songs, relaxing sounds of lake streams.