Three tenors of philosophy

Wittgenstein said^◊
a philosopher's task is to shew the fly: "Shoo!
Out of your bottle!"
Shoo fly, shoo.
Poor little fly, has no clue what to do.

Quine said
"Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar."
But will it ever be caught?
Without much glamour,
too much I hear sounds like so much clamor.

Derrida said
"There is nothing outside the text."
Text, Deconstruct thyself!
Upon thyself flexed—
Could anyone be so hopelessly vexed?

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◊ (Ludwig) Wittgenstein the aim of philosophy is "to shew the fly out of the fly-bottle", from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy