Watten 5: "Coexisting with, and very much in reaction to the Symbolists in 1915 were the [Russian] Futurists. One of their manifestos was called 'Declaration of the Word as Such,' which argued for the existence of poetic language in its own right. Poetic language begins with sound, and the self-evident word; it does not end in correspondence with the outside world. New meaning comes from the sound; in this, the Futurists were close to Dada and to the Italian Futurists."