Masonry for Text

Hi there! I'm attempting to use Masonry for positive affirmations we've received from customers. Most of these are text based not image based. No matter what I try with the stylesheet, masonry will not accept the column widths I've established when text is added to the view. I've tried creating a separate class to wrap them in but it breaks the masonry view and doesn't provide the flow that masonry was designed for. I'm at a loss. Does anyone have any suggestions?