“I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.”

— Jacques Derrida

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Jacques Derrida58

French philosopher (1930-2004) 1930–2004

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Geling Yan (1958) Chinese writer and screenwriter

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“Slowly I would get to pen and paper,
Make my poems for others unseen and unborn.”

Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist

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Context: Slowly I would get to pen and paper,
Make my poems for others unseen and unborn.
In the day I would be reminded of those men and women,
Brave, setting up signals across vast distances,
considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values.