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"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket."

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About Charles Peguy

Charles Péguy was a French poet, essayist, and editor known for political and spiritual writing in the early 20th century. He founded the journal Cahiers de la Quinzaine and was an important voice in French intellectual life. Péguy was killed in the opening weeks of World War I.

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