“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”

— Matsuo Basho · Life quote

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho quote card
Poet · 1644 – 1694

Matsuo Basho was Japan's greatest haiku master, who raised the short comic verse of his day into a profound art. His travel diary The Narrow Road to the Deep North records a life spent walking Japan's roads in search of poetry.

More quotes by Matsuo Basho · Browse all quotes on QuotePlace

More like this

Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star's stories. — Joy Harjo
Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star's stories.
Joy Harjo
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. — Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
Kahlil Gibran
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. — Rabindranath Tagore
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.
Rabindranath Tagore
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. — Saadi Shirazi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Saadi Shirazi
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. — Rumi
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am a man dreaming I am a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I am a man. — Zhuangzi
Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am a man dreaming I am a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Zhuangzi