--- title: "1 Understand Know Quotes By Tomaz Salamun" description: "1 Understand Know quotes by Tomaz Salamun. Plus more from Tomaz Salamun and more Understand Know sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/725/tomaz-salamun-75432_destiny_i-know-last-night-in-the-water-where-bar_2756433.jpg" --- > [“I Know" Last night, in the water where Barnett Newman’s line disappeared, I drowned. I swam to the surface, like a black, dark-blue luminous blossom. It’s terrible to be a flower. The world stopped. Mute, like velvet, I opened, perhaps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomaz-salamun/i-know-last-night-in-the-water-where-barnett-newman-s-line/) Tomaž Šalamun [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/725/tomaz-salamun-75432_destiny_i-know-last-night-in-the-water-where-bar_2756433.jpg) ## More by Tomaz Salamun > [“My mind is a sacred cow / bleeding in the ellipsis.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomaz-salamun/my-mind-is-a-sacred-cow-bleeding-in-the-ellipsis/) Tomaz Salamun > [“I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomaz-salamun/i-demand-unconditional-love-and-complete-freedom-that-is-why-i-am/) Tomaz Salamun > [“I Know" Last night, in the water where Barnett Newman’s line disappeared, I drowned. I swam to the surface, like a black, dark-blue luminous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tomaz-salamun/i-know-last-night-in-the-water-where-barnett-newman-s-line/) Tomaž Šalamun ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/understand-know/tomaz-salamun/#itemlist", "name": "1 Understand Know Quotes By Tomaz Salamun", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I Know\" Last night, in the water where Barnett Newman’s line disappeared, I drowned. I swam to the surface, like a black, dark-blue luminous blossom. It’s terrible to be a flower. The world stopped. Mute, like velvet, I opened, perhaps for good. Before, with Tomaž Brejc, we talked about the mystique of finance, about the eye, the triangle, about God, possible readings of chance, of Slovenian history and destiny. Don’t touch me. I’m the greatest capital just as I am. I’m the water in which the destiny of the world takes place for us. I’m dizzy. I don’t understand. I know. Tonight, when I made love, I reported. I’m a black cube now, like marble or granite-from-the-other-world, a bird standing, with yellow feet and an immense yellow beak, my black feathers shining: now the eminent church dignitary, that is: they all wanted me, the blossom. I’m the pure dark blossom standing still on the surface. Untouchable and untouched. 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