and beat them with sticks, immersed them in horse troughs full of piss, that sort of thing. But the education," he [Peter Porter] allows, "wasn't bad."He goes further: "I often think now if I hadn't been educated there, I wouldn't have written at all. Neither my father nor my mother were readers; there were no books in the house. But when I got to school you had your nose shoved into them. I read endlessly: Donne, Shakespeare, the Victorians; I've always had a huge admiration for Robert Browning. And I began to find that I enjoyed writing poetry."
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: Poetic Justice
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