Ernest Poole Quotes

United States, Novelist
January 23, 1880 – January, 10, 1950.

Ernest Cook Poole was an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. Poole is best remembered for his sympathetic first-hand reportage of revolutionary Russia during and immediately after the Revolution of 1905 and Revolution of 1917 and as a popular writer of proletarian-tinged fiction during the era of World War I and the 1920s.

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

Ernest Poole
- House
- Cutting
- Grows
All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.

Ernest Poole
- Real
- Done
- Village

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

Ernest Poole
- Kind
- Raises
- Crops
When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.

Ernest Poole
- Children
- Money
- Vote
The trouble with those people is that they think all the best things are made in the cities. It is not so.

Ernest Poole
- Trouble
- Cities