Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.

I've always been a very observant person, a visual person. That's my way of learning. Things on paper, notes and things like that, don't help me the same way as watching things live.

I got a great imagination, and I pay close attention to my surroundings and I'm very observant.

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Enchantment lies in everyday moments if you are observant.

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.