fuse quotes

Each diploma is a lighted match† Each one of you is a fuse.

- Edward I(rving) Koch
   Addressing students at NY State University. In the New York Times,10  Jun.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  'The ForceThatThrough the Green Fuse Drives the Flower'.