Space is a swarming in the eyes; and time,
A singing in the ears
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These two lines are from Canto 2 of 'Pale Fire', a beautiful poem by Vladimir Nabokov that is the heart of his bizzare novel of the same name. The poem is supposedly written by Nabokov's invented poet, John Francis Shade. As a joke, in the first edition of this book I credited the lines only to Shade and listed only Shade's name in the index. Nabokov returned the joke in his novel Ada (note the palindrome), where the action takes place on Anti-Terra, a kind of mirror image of our earth. On page 542 Nabokov repeats the same two lines, then adds that they were written by "a modern poet, as quoted by an invented philosopher ('Martin Gardiner') in The Ambidextrous Universe ...
Gardner M. The Fourth Dimension // The Philosophy of right and left : incongruent counterparts and the nature of space