Including divs in your page content

How do you hard-code divs into your page content?

Say, for example you want a picture on the left and a description of the picture on the right in your content. In order to do this, I need to use at least 3 divs, one for the left, one for the right, and another to contain everything.

But every time I type the div command, wordpress turns it into a paragraph. I can use Spans, but I don’t want to use spans.

So, I’m wondering — is there another way of including a div, or hard-coding a div straight into the page content?

Thanks