HTML image and text not inline

I an trying to have a website with an image and text. I tried using inline-block; inline; block; float; in tons of combinations and none of them work.

<div id="maintext">
        </br>
        </br>
                <p>
text will take multiple lines.
ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
</p>              
                </div>
                <img src="http://ift.tt/1uAzLA7" alt="Picture of something" style="width:200px;height:200px;">

My CSS is this

#maintext {margin-left:160px;width:650px;font-family:Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;}

I spent hours looking in the StackOverflow forums and none of the solutions work.