Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.
Dismantle
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
It was a grave mistake to dismantle the Jewish communities in Sinai.
They went back there, looked at all the computers, asked me to come in and tell them what all the computers were for specifically so they knew how to dismantle the network I had been running.
Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year – a small government proposal if ever there was one.