In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.
Susan SontagEven more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.
Susan Sontag