Nothing recedes like progress.
Source: Jottings, in Wake, no. 10 (1951; repr. in A Miscellany, ed. by George J. Firmage, 1958).
-- e e cummings, (Oct 14 1894-1962), US poet, novelist; He is well known for his eccentric language and typography; wrote Tulips are Chimneys, 1923 and the autobiographical The Enormous Room, 1922.