$$Art is a miraculous flirtation with Nothing!Aiming for nothing, and landing on the Sun.$$Doveglion: Collected PoemsConsidered as one of the finest contemporary poets regardless of$$ race or language.$$ Villa, who lived in Singalong, Manila, introduced the reversed consonance rime scheme, including the comma poems that made full use of the punctuation mark in an innovative, poetic way.$$ The first of his poems $$Have Come, Am Here$$ received critical recognition when it appeared in New York in $1942$ that, soon enough, honors and fellowships were heaped on him: Guggenheim, Bollingen, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards.$$ He used Doveglion $($Dove$,$ Eagle, Lion$)$ as penname, the very characters he attributed to himself, and the same ones explored by e$.$e$.$ cummings in the poem he wrote for Villa $($Doveglion$,$ Adventures in Value$).$ Villa is also known for the tartness of his tongue.