"St Thomas Aquinas famously said that “pulchra enim dicuntur quae visa placent”, ‘beautiful things are those which please when seen’."
"In Latin. magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri."
"Parmenidean imagination in the haunting fear, then current, of petrification in various forms: the com - placent evocation of a dried-up earth reduced to a skeleton or rock, caught in a shroud of ice or salt."