The Resilient Creative

The Resilient Creative

The magic of storytelling resides in the polarity, the precision and abstraction

honoring every word and image as essential in the greater project of creative living

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Jen Knox
May 20, 2025
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"Every word is a citizen in this collective hope toward clarity and expansion. And like any civic project, every citizen matters. Every word counts." —Ocean Vuong

I grabbed this quote from an old interview. In it, Ocean also speaks about the necessity of writing something to become “bigger” than the limitations of the body.

He speaks about specificity wit…

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