"if the words are smooth and natural and sonorous..."

Since I have been thinking of wonderful language:

"If you read any work and you find that it is full of ideas that make you think: if those ideas are conveyed in imagery or drama and above all - if the words are smooth and natural and sonorous, and as effortless as a drum beating in a distant forest- then you are probably reading great poetry."

Andrew Barton (Banjo) Paterson wrote that. You may know him as the Australian bush poet and lawyer who wrote "Waltzing Matilda" and "The Man From Snowy River".